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What appears to have been missed in this whole debate is that it's the clients who are the real victims of this Stalinist approach. If their case is struck out because of a mistake by their solicitor they are summarily deprived of justice through no fault of their own.

It's all very well saying that they have a remedy against their solicitor. But in today's terror regime they may not be able to find a lawyer to take on their previous one. And even if they can, how is having to start a new claim, with all the additional time and stress that involves - and which may be vigorously defended - a remotely just outcome for the individual who expected the courts to assist him rather than throw out his perfectly good case?

In their righteous urge to punish solicitors the Jackson Five seem to have lost sight of the fact that the solicitors are simply representatives of the clients and that the clients' right to justice should not be denied because their representatives have made what may well have been a simple mistake that's caused no harm to anyone.

It makes about as much sense as a school expelling a model student because his parents forgot to give him his dinner money!

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