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These cases have been correctly decided on established legal principles and on their respective facts.

It is notable that the court quashed the SDT's decisions and imposed strike offs instead - the only legally appropriate outcome.

The wider debate about stress and mental well-being in legal services has already started, possibly late but better than not at all, and everyone who cares about the profession, their clients, colleagues and professional acquaintances and, ultimately, themselves has a part to play in it. These decisions will help with that as the separate commentary piece by John Hyde on Sovani James shows.