Law Society’s Gazette, 14 May 1980

BrothelsThe recent case involving the antics at Ambleside Avenue, Streatham, highlights the weakness of our laws on prostitution. All the gentlemen involved, including solicitors and barristers, get away with it unnamed and unscathed yet the lady who organised their pleasure is punished. She might well ask ‘What evil have I done?’ The answer is she has broken an archaic law which penalises the fair sex. If she had had no customers she would not find herself in the awful trouble that she is in now. No wonder the case is uppermost in the minds of some members of parliament and the editors of some newspapers. Who was hurt by what took place? The wives of the men? If they were hurt was it Cynthia Payne who hurt them? I think no. The fault, dear Brutus…

Beware, solicitorI have been sent with the names duly deleted details of an application to a local legal aid committee to defend a divorce petition. Among the grounds was the following statement: ‘My husband followed me everywhere accusing me of seeing other men or a solicitor…’Sebastian Cullwick

Law Society’s Gazette, 28 May 1980

Young solicitorsComputers – an idiot’s delightSome of us are born computerised, some of us achieve computers, and some of us have computers thrust upon us – but unfortunately, not for free! This article is written as by one idiot to another in the hope of dispelling some of the mysteries which surround computers and other forms of technology, and which seem, if anything, to strike even more terror into the hearts of young solicitors than of their seniors!

Remember we are not talking about computers large enough to develop their own paranoias and try to take over the world, but about small to medium systems which many of us might use.