On 1 March 2007, you kindly printed a letter in which I questioned why it was that membership of the Criminal Litigation Accreditation Scheme (CLAS) and the possession of higher rights of audience was not publicly recognised by the Law Society on the ‘find a solicitor’ section of the Society's website, despite the recognition afforded to other accreditation schemes for personal injury and family law.

I am pleased to see that membership of CLAS is now displayed alongside the other schemes when viewing a firm's profile.

However, for some reason being qualified to appear on one's feet before Supreme Court Justices still does not seem worthy of mention.

Justin Atkinson, McKinnells, Lincoln