The 'President's Podium' is invariably crisp and refreshing. But I tripped over Edward Nally's conclusion that the Law Society's intervention in the House of Lords' hearing of the Three Rivers case had ' ...afforded us protection of the right to legal professional privilege...' (see [2004] Gazette, 9 December, 16). I am sure that the Law Society's written submission was to the point. But did their lordships really say that 'it was the Society wot won it?' Unless they did, the president's assertion must be a candidate for non-sequitur of the year.


Seriously, though, the Law Society needs to be careful of over-sell, especially post-Clementi, when all its doings and sayings will be under the microscope.



Allan Merry, Nottingham