Law for sale?

Regarding the possibility of employed solicitors being allowed to advise the public, I ask: do supermarkets turn away plump people from their cream cake departments?

Often it is in a client's interest to avoid the law.

His objectives should come before those of his lawyer, but be subject to the solicitor's duty to be honourable as an officer of the court.

Legal help is not something to be consumed; rather it is dependent on a trusting personal relationship - like a guide who supports a person as he crosses a torrent on stepping stones, giving full attention to the prevailing circumstances.

Michael Jackson, William H Lill & Co, Altrincham