Rights For Solicitors
Baroness Ashton's reasoning is flawed (see [2007] Gazette, 1 March, 3). Surely it is more reasonable to think that it is only complaints without merit that would get to the proposed office for legal complaints, because it is reasonable to assume that most solicitors would do everything possible to resolve a genuine complaint in-house. It is the complainants without merit who are unlikely to accept an in-house resolution
The idea that a solicitor should have to pay for the costs of an investigation even if found 'innocent' is illogical, invidious and against the principles of natural justice. Are solicitors the only sector of the community without any human rights?
Richard Fisher, vice-president, Cardiff & District Law Society
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