Law Society’s Gazette, June 1970

Solicitors Wine SocietyOn 23 April, forty-two intrepid pioneers boarded the plane at Gatwick for the start of the Society’s first Vineyard Visit to the region of Anjou, once part of England. The same number returned five days later in universal health and gaiety filled with historical and geographical knowledge, good food and superb wine. In the interval, they had been nurtured in Nantes, and accorded the accolade of a civic reception in Angers. They had been entertained Chez Cointreau, and by M and Mme Doucet at Chaumes, and they had sampled the celebrated and rare ‘Coulee de Serrant’, one of the glories of France, in the hospitable home of Mme Joly… The trip was clearly a great success and was, it is hoped, the first of many.

Letters to the editor The Effects of DecimalisationWill the advent of decimalisation mean that juries will be reduced to ten just men and true?John Gridley & Co, Hoddesdon, Herts