The bar’s lofty refusal to contemplate a ‘fused profession’ (Obiter, 15 February) has met with an equally lofty retort – from the Isle of Man. Paul Beckett, head of business at Quinn Law in Douglas, got in touch to point out that practitioners there and their ‘cousins-in-law’ in the Channel Islands ‘manage perfectly well practising as “Advocates Solicitors Attorneys” – in our case since well before the Isle of Man Law Society was formed in 1859’.
Multitasking is clearly the order of the day in that particular island economy, though how they manage to get any work done at all with motorbikes screeching by every five seconds escapes us. ‘Be brave, Britain – give it a go!’ Beckett urges. The Thames at Blackfriars will freeze over first, if the bar has anything to do with it…
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