It would be nice to think that we legal aid practitioners will be missed, after hundreds more firms are driven out of business by Carter, Baird, Regan et al.


Perhaps the pendulum will swing back again in the other direction after a few years in which MPs find that their surgeries are swollen to bursting point and beyond by the social welfare cases that they are no longer able to refer to high street solicitors.



Come to think of it, let's give our elected representatives more of an opportunity even at this point to sample what the future will be like. I feel sure that much more of an effort could be made to refer to constituency MPs cases that practitioners cannot take on for economic or eligibility reasons.



Ken Cohen, London