Stephen Parkinson, director of public prosecutions, has spotted a generational divide in his team over the willingness to get on the ‘dog ’n bone’. 

‘Many issues are just solved quicker through a call rather than through endless email exchanges,’ he told journalists visiting the CPS headquarters in London this week.

Apparently, a ‘cultural change’ is needed among some younger lawyers, ‘and to assist that, we’ve actually put a cap on the number of written communications that can take place without a conversation with the police’.

Obiter, who is on the blower side of the generational divide, heartily concurs with the DPP’s new communications policy.

It’s good to talk, and Gen Z seems to have forgotten how.

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