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My recollection is that “Renton & Brown’s Criminal Procedure”—the bible for criminal practitioners—used to say that when precognition officers are employed, they are to be under the direction of someone who is legally qualified.
That was, of course, the language that was used south of the border about Browne until Browne was published and we discovered that the word was not “additional” but “substitute”.
The action is motivated by trade union members’ genuine concern about the safety of the travelling public, as Gavin Brown said, and the company’s apparent willingness to ignore solemn agreements in the pursuit of profit.
We have material, but we can do nothing more until we see the shape of the Commission's proposals. As you will know, Mr Brown, in our lifetime as lawyers we have moved from registration of titles to land registration.
Mr Brown himself proposed such a measure in a private member's bill at Westminster 22 years ago, but he did not follow through when he was in Government.