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It shouldn't ever have got as far as the SDT. She didn't really do anything wrong- as opposed to breaking the law which is not the same thing. There are many practising solicitors with drink-drive convictions for example. She was just keeping in touch with her client in an effective way. Rather than tut-tutting, the authorities would be better employed finding ways to ease and encourage such contact. But of course to the Tories all prisoners are sub-human scum deserving of nothing (see also "Daily Mail") to the extent that their last PM bless him said he felt physically sick at the thought of prisoners voting (this of course the same idiot who called the EU referendum). That's right lock them up for 23 hours a day, deprive them of contact with the outside world, and at the end of their sentences they'll come out completely rehabilitated.

I'm 70 and retired and say what I think. Are solicitors still expected to use snail mail to contact their clients? And the thought of the police arresting a solicitor for contacting a client about solicitor/client business makes me uneasy- even that they know about it.

Some will say this is naïve. I would respond- look at the broader picture, and consider our liberties and those of our clients.