Having just picked myself up off the floor, twice, after reading your report 'Alternative agenda' (see [2007] Gazette, 15 February, 22), I am actively making urgent enquiry as to the medical efficacy of having both of my legs amputated, my insides hollowed out and my head capped with a bell-tipped pointy hat.


If, on the strength of what appears to be proposed for entire and future success in the legal world, I am to become a puppet of Joe Public, I hope that whichever hand he uses is not only clean but also warm and reassuring; in fact, just like the experienced hand I have offered to my clients for the whole of my career, which I continue to offer, and which is readily and happily accepted by most, if not all.



David Chambers, Frearsons Solicitors, Skegness, Lincolnshire