I was disturbed by the recent letters in connection with spam e-mail (see [2005] Gazette, 1 September, 13). Why does the Law Society not regard such an illegal action as a breach of professional ethics?

The regulations, dated December 2003, state that senders may not send unsolicited e-mail to individual subscribers unless they have the recipients' prior consent to do so. Solicitors should not send such e-mail without being very careful.


I am a solicitor who has found spam e-mail to be a real nuisance. It clogs up recipients' machines and bandwidth, and may have more serious effects such as turning machines into spam-sending zombies.


It is more likely to be the smaller firms that suffer from received spam, and they may not know that their machines are sending it out. In the event that they are senders of spam, they may not be acting unethically, but they are certainly breaking the law, and is doing so unknowingly any defence?


Does it reflect well on their professionalism and how they handle confidential electronic data?


Simon Page, Cappuccino Systems, Guildford