I may be alone but I was not aware, with the coming into force of the Constitutional Reform Act 2005, that solicitors will no longer bear the illustrious title of ‘Solicitor of the Supreme Court’. In fact, the Supreme Court Act of 1981 has been renamed the Senior Courts Act 1981 and the definition of a Solicitor under s.151(1) now reads Solicitor of the Senior Courts. Presumably this is all down to the creation of a new upstart Supreme Court, the replacement body for the House of Lords as the highest appellate court in the land, which appears to have hijacked our name. While the creation of a new appeal court outside parliament is no doubt to be commended, one cannot help but wonder why the new court could not have been called ‘the Senior Court’ and our position left unchanged.

Christopher J Hindle, Cohen Cramer, Leeds