Examination of Witnesses (Questions 120-121)
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MONDAY 12 MARCH
2007
Q120 Mr Bacon: From rowingcouples.com?
Mr Mitchell: I would have posed for it
for you.
Mr Touhig: Possibly, the Law Society
comes and looks at it, and you get advice from your solicitor
to stop shouting at each other.
Q121 Chairman: I think that concludes
our inquiry, which has been very useful, but Sir John, your Report
was published on 2 March. The supplementary memorandum arrived
on 8 March. Your Report found that only one in three people was
made aware of the option of mediation. We now hear today that
we will be cracking down on these solicitors, so that fewer and
fewer people—perhaps no people—will end up at the
tender mercies of Sue, Grabbit and Runne. What will you do to
keep an eye on the Department now to ensure that the promises
that we have received so late in the day will be carried out?
Sir John Bourn: We shall certainly
do that and follow it through, as I said, and also look at the
issue of the difficulties to which Members have referred, which
arise when a Report is followed too soon by a supplementary memorandum
from the Department. We would like to have had it earlier, so
that we could have taken it into account in the Report that you
had.
Chairman: Thank you very much. Thank
you, Mrs Regan. We have further, private business, so if everybody
else could leave as quickly as possible, we would be very grateful.
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