The picture on page 12 of the 23 September Gazette also adorns the front cover of August’s journal of the Law Society of Scotland. Apparently, September’s vexed-looking figure is no longer concerned about the Cadder effect (so called because of a Scots case to do with a suspect’s access to a lawyer in an initial police interview), but rather the ever more powerful regulatory and business crime regime.

Are solicitors being forced to moonlight in an alternative career (such as modelling) in recessionary times?

Malcolm Combe, Tods Murray, Edinburgh