Quintin Jardine's blog

As my bio will tell you, I spent a couple of my teenage years trying, not very hard, to become a solicitor, having been manoeuvred into that position by my parents whose understanding of the world outside teaching was very limited. One of the things that I did learn is that given the confrontational nature of that profession, roughly fifty per cent of lawyers are wrong. That leads to some remarkable situations, but none more so or funnier than the stand-off that has arisen in Malawi between the JusticeMinister and the Solicitor General. The BBC handles the story best, so for all the explosive detail, go to

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-12363852