Guy Beringer uses his megaphone to tell legal aid lawyers to enter into dialogue with the Legal Services Commission (LSC) and the Department for Constitutional Affairs (DCA) and the Treasury (see [2005] Gazette, 22 September, 1).
D'oh! Thanks, Guy, we had never thought of that. The government and legal aid bureaucrats do not want to engage with solicitors. Their idea of consultation is to tell us what is going to happen and ask us how we can implement the policy/contract change/budget reduction, etcetera. It has never asked us to help develop a better legal aid system and we have had years of sneering abuse and of being ignored from the LSC, the DCA and the Treasury.
Come on down into the gutter, Guy, and meet lawyers who work for about £60 per hour in a system that treats them as the enemy and with utter contempt.
Michael Robinson, Emmersons, Sunderland
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