I support Richard Miller when he states that the Legal Aid Practitioners Group (LAPG) believes the proposed scheme for criminal competitive tendering is unworkable (see [2005] Gazette, 3 March, 16). I believe the scheme will inevitably lead to the financial ruin of many firms, whether their tender succeeds or not. Whereas the LAPG has no confidence that the Legal Services Commission understands what it is doing, or why, I disagree. I consider that the commission understands precisely.
Res ipsa loquitur, as we used to be able to say.
Graham Guerin, Hooper Holt & Co, Redhill, Surrey
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