Misleading the public

Your editorial rightly says that 'solicitors' firms must shed arcane images and outmoded working practices to function in the modern world' (see [2001] Gazette, 5 July, 15).

How odd then that the same edition carries the front-page headline 'Irvine gives impetus to crime solicitors' wig hope'.

Practitioners who feel the need to dress up in funny clothes in the mistaken belief that it somehow compensates for a lack of ability or self-confidence should stick to Gilbert and Sullivan, instead of misleading the public into thinking that the professionals in this business suffer from the same shortcomings.

Stephen Britt, solicitor and company secretary, Equitas Limited