I write with reference to the attack on the Solicitors Regulation Authority by insurers and the comment ‘Why stay in a market which has been a bloody mess?’.

If insurers are forced to leave the market, we might be forced to use an insurance model from the real world.

In this world, parties routinely deal with each other where one or both parties does not have insurance. Do they fall down or do the parties become prudent?

In our world, we look upon all our clients as too immature for such concepts and we are too lofty to be responsible for our own actions.

Yet our clients routinely insure themselves against all sorts of risk, not to mention obtaining legal expenses insurance or legal indemnities when they need to do so.

The thought of insurers leaving the market sounds like just what we need.

No more premiums or paying through the nose because someone else costs the insurers millions. Everyone responsible for their own actions.

Alas, if only this was possible.

I say good riddance to bad rubbish and let our clients, in the real market, decide what risk they want us to insure against.

Mohammed A Sadiq, Principal, Law Management Solicitors, London NW1