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They were also not best placed to evaluate public policy considerations.Now the Attorney-General day php?year=2010&month=3&day=3 is about to install modules extcal Crown prosecutors in police stations so modules extcal as to "improve the liaison between officers and prosecuting authorities". The obviously intended result modules is that staff of the CPS (known to many police officers as the "Criminals' Protection Service") will be immersed in police culture and thinking.It is the fault neither of the police nor of the Crown prosecutors that crime is an epidemic problem in the 1990s, so rearranging this institutional furniture will have no appreciable impact on crime figures. Major political and economic changes are to blame for modern crime, two-thirds of which is domestic burglary and theft of and from cars.Yours faithfully,Gary SlapperThe modules Law SchoolStaffordshire UniversityStoke-on-Trent. From Mr Jonathan Meth Sir: David Lister asks ("Lottery cash may fund new plays", 5 December) why shouldn't playwrights be php?year=2010&month=3&day=3 left to the dictates of the marketplace? The system of state arts investment (I refuse to call it day subsidy) in this country operates to provide php?year=2010&month=3&day=3 resources to buildings and companies as day the providers of the arts to the nation. Practitioners, technicians and administrators employed by these buildings and companies are paid a salary, albeit not a very high one Without a playwright, there can be no new work in theatre. Playwrights, however, are not php?year=2010&month=3&day=3 part of the structural economic fabric of modules day php?year=2010&month=3&day=3 these organisations. They are brought in as extcal hired hands, extcal as and when others decide.Good plays take time extcal to evolve They require development They can and should take between six and 12 day months to write.
With very few exceptions at the uppermost echelon, playwrights are paid between pounds 3,000 and pounds 6,000 for a play.It is widely acknowledged that Britain is fortunate enough to lead the world in this field. But on a freelance basis, without more opportunities to earn money, playwrights will inevitably move towards other media to make a living. This is the law of the marketplace, and it is why National Lottery funds to resource playwrights in the creation of capital assets, far from being elitist, is imperative if theatre is to thrive.As the tabloids have clearly demonstrated, the lottery promulgates the myth that arts are an additional luxury, instead of vital to the health and wealth of our nation. What troubles me, as a British citizen, is not only the barbarity of President Mubarak's regime, but that the Egyptian government is allowed to send its agents to practise their torture and shoot-to-kill tactics on British soil. From Mr H M. Mahdy Sir: I would like to applaud Robert Fisk for his thorough reporting and analysis of the situation in Egypt (reports, 6 December).
In the Saro-Wiwa case, the government invoked Decree 2 of 1987. President Abacha personally nominated the members of the tribunal. Two were judges; the third, as required by the decree, was a military officer.Section 8 of the decree provides that the validity of any decision of the tribunal may not be questioned in any court of law Hence, no right to judicial review or to appeal. Hence, the inevitable failure of all attempts by the defence to challenge in the ordinary courts the legality of the tribunal and its decisions. Hence, the execution of the defendants within only 10 days of the convictions.Curiously, the High Commission has experienced a recurrent difficulty in accurately describing to the public the nature of the tribunal. For example, in January it circulated a brief entitled "Trial of Ken Saro- Wiwa in the Civil Disturbances Special Tribunal", claiming that the tribunal was "made up of two serving High Court Judges".