Apex of the class system
Any clever solicitor can make the law look like an ass, as the foxhunters, Trevor Adams and Rory Innes, were able to do by hiring expensive briefs.
We didn't hear much complaining from police chiefs about lack of manpower and resources when dealing with secondary picketing during the miners' strike. Clearly, the National Union of Mineworkers is a different kettle of fish compared to the Countryside Alliance. So don't expect another Battle of Orgreave enacted on a Buccleuch estate over blood sport.
It is not how the system works.
GEORGE B ANDERSON
Elliothill Street
Dunfermline