I have read recent press reports that it is now (or soon will be) illegal to smile on a passport photograph.

This is causing me some concern.


We see a lot of passports nowadays as we have to verify identity. We are also required, we are told, to shop people to the authorities if they are involved in misdeeds, or even if we only suspect they might be.


I ask myself precisely what degree of curl at either side of someone's mouth might constitute sufficient grounds to suspect a sufficient contravention to trigger a requirement for a report?


I suggest the Law Society might urgently consider setting up a working party to look into the possibility of preparing a discussion document for a committee to consider whether or not it should have a think about this.


John Wilson, Wilsons Solicitors, Leeds