I read with sympathy the letter from Michael Robinson regarding the contempt with which legal aid lawyers are treated by government and Legal Service Commission (LSC) bureaucrats (see [2005] Gazette, 13 October, 16).


I remember as a child receiving advice never to respond to the promise of sweet things, that some grown-ups are not always nice and will say one thing when they really mean to do something else, and that I should walk away if I ever felt uneasy. Then I grew up into adulthood and, forgetting all that advice, I also signed a contract with the LSC.



G Pearson, Freeman-Pearson Solicitors, Sunderland