Literalist judge Lord Tenterden stipulated, in the 19th century, that the letter rather than the spirit of the law should be observed, ”Regardless of the consequences.” A major consequence is that every fat-fingered lawyer who passionately believe ‘it’s the role of any good lawyer to find breaches in the law and exploit them’ on behalf of their scum-of-the-earth-clients now merrily trouser huge amounts of money simply by ignoring the spirit/intent of our laws. Worse, these doyens of respectability have seduced the public into believing their disgraceful abuse of the law to be socially acceptable.

Unfortunately, given the legal profession’s position as one of the nations most influential and accomplished minority groups/lobbyists (they’re drinking pals and/or personally related to virtually everybody who walks the corridors of power) the situation looks set to remain unchanged for another couple of centuries. Dimwitted members of the Apathetic Majority are either totally unaware of the cost/damage being inflicted upon the nation by the constant abuse of our laws by lawyers or have come to believe it to be an acceptable and irreversible element of some wondrous national heritage bestowed upon us by the legal profession.