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HOME NEWS THE GUARPIAN Saturday June M979 ,3 Fraiefnal aecolade to a likely boss Barristers and solicitors hot to merge their functions NEWS IN BRIEF Rosemary Collins, accompanies Prince Charles on a visit to the headquarters of Britain's second biggest union Solicitors keep monopol conveya PRINCE' Charles visited the offices of the Amalgamated Union of -Engineering Workers yesterday and was told by. the union's president that he a very eood engineering employer." While that la not. always a term in AUEW. circles it was undoubtedly Intended to be so on this occasion: or the visit' was part' of a1 programme designed to familiarise the heir to the throne with both sides of Industry. After being 'introduced to the six members of the union's national executive council, which earlier this week shed through retirement its remaining Left-wing member and is now solidly Right-wing, Prince Charles raised the subject of the union's national pay claim the negotiations on which arc at present deadlocked.

He thought it was quite a big claim. The present national minimum rate for a skilled engineer is 60 a week a and the claim is for 80. Negotiations broke down the day before the Prince's Visit at around the 70 mark. But Mr Terry Duffy, the union's president, explained that the claim was not for new money." No-one would actually get 20 a week extra even if the claim were met in full. Later Mr Duffy said that he thought he had been able to reassure the Prince who, according to Mr Duffy, had left "with a better understanding that it was not an inflationary increase we were asking for." He seemed pleasantly surprised by mv explanation.

It was then that Mr Duffy told the Prince Prince Charles gets the message (but not the membership) token he visits the headquarters of the engineering Terry Duffy, the AUEW president is on the left. The scroll was once presented to journeymen recruits to the union By Michael Zander, Legal Correspondent The possibility that solicitors would be stripped of their monopoly on house conveyancing disappears after the report the Royal Commission on Legal Services, which was signed yesterday. The report expected to be published next September or October recommends that this monopoly should be strengthened by substantial increases in penal-tics for conveyancing by unqualified people. Notaries public would" lose their right to do this work. But the commission urscs that there should be a ceiling on allowable conveyancing fees, with price competition.

Solicitors should be allowed to advertise their fees broadly as recommended by the Monopolies Commission in 1976. None of the other proposals most feared by the profession have found favour with the Ionian commission under the chairmanship of Sir Henry Benson, former president of the Institute of Chartered Accountants. The commission does not recommend that barristers and solicitors be merged into one profession. nor that barristers should lose their monopoly over the right of audience in the higher courls. The commission suggests that solicitors should give their clients advance notice of the way in which their services are priced and information about developments 111 the case, lne Law Society is urged lo Like a broader view of the kinds of complaints it will consider lrom clients.

The report proposes the establishment of new standing independent machinery to moni did so when he did not raise any objection. In the audit department next door someone had posted a notice saying Before you meet the handsome Prince you have to kiss a lot of toads." Prince Charles was presented with a document called an initiatory address." "The verbiage in there is very good," Mr Duffy explained. It was a scroll originally presented to skilled recruits to the union. Among other things, it pledged engineers to "con duct ourselves in such a manner that employers noticing our regular conduct will be led to vahie our institution and enquire for our members when in want of workmen." But they did not make Prince Charles a member of the AUEW Indeed according to Mr John Boyd, the general secretary, the union has no members at Buckingham Palace. Any engineering work there would be done by members of the Civil Service Union, he thought.

University principal criticised over delay in checking lecturer Leftist Eitson to foe right-hand man The principal of University College, Cardiff, is among senior staff blamed for causing "significant delays" in getting rid of a lecturer who has been teaching students for three years without being able to substantiate his claim to be qualified. Dr Cecil Bevan and two deputy principals, Professor Lyn Evans and Professor Lee Sheridan, are criticised in the confidential report of an inquiry set up by the college council- into controversy over Mr Bogdam, Saajkowski, aged' 35, a Polish-born lecturer in; Communist affairs. As reported bv the Guardian in March, doubts arose over whether Mr Szajkowski had the Warsaw University master of arts degree which he claimed when given the Cardiff job. Arrangements were made for other staff to teach his 50 Injured girl is allowed to die THE PARENTS of a girl stu dent lmured in a traffic acci dent agreed to allow her life support machine lo be switched off a few hours before her nineteenth birthday. Camilla Wynne-Griffiths, a first-year psychology student at Exeter University, was taken to hospital after her moped had been in collision with a car on Monday.

At first doctors thought she had only superficial injuries, but she was put on a life support machine after her condition worsened, and the decision to allow her to die was taken after she was found to have brain damage. After Camilla had been pronounced dead a hospital spokesman said: "The decision to switch off a life support machine is only taken when it is clear that brain damage has occurred." Meeting on cricket rules The management committee of the World Cup, met last night with the captains and managers ot me eight teams to hammer out interpretations of the regulations. Following the controversial declaration by Somerset in their Benson and Hedges Cup tie against Worcestershire last month, thev de cided there would be 110 declarations. Bumpers will not be restricted to one per over as in English first class cricket. Instead the umpires are in structed to call a wide 11 the ball passes over head-height of tne Datsman.

RAF base cuts drinking hours OPENING hours of messes at RAF Linton on Ouse, near York, have been reduced on weekdays to cut drinking and ensure safer flying for young pilots. The officers- ana the airmens' messes will close half an hour earlier. But Squadron Leader Ted Kendall, the station's training officer, said it was a coincidence that the order had come shortly after the findings of a crash inouirv which reported traces of alco- noi in a pnoi oooy. Irish Post Office strike spreads THE Irish Republic's four -month old Post Office strike is about to get worse. The 13,000 strikers who have halted all mail deliveries and collections and stopped operator assisted phone calls, have been promised support by technicians which could close down the country's Telex system within weeks.

Cabbies' threat to state visit LONDON cab drivers are threatening to disrupt the State visit to Britain of the President of Kenya in protest at the delay in securing fare increases. Mr Daniel Moi is due to arrive on Tuesday for a tluee-diay visit, and there are fears that the cabbies may turn out in force to block his route to Buckingham Palace. Caller survives crushed kiosk TWO women died and a man escaped serious injury yesterday -when a lorry flattened the telephone kiosk beside the All at Wymondham, Norfolk, from wmcn he was making a can. The lorry hit an estate car, killing two elderly sisters, before crashing into the kiosk. national and international figures of the day, clear argument was always buttressed by a wealth of colourful anecdotes.

He wrote excellent prose in longhand, never needing to correct or erase a word, and always exactly to the right space, thereby pleasing the sub-editor on the night as much as the reader next morning, a rare combination indeed. If there was a rushed last-minute article to be done it was always Coote who imposed this task upon himself, even when already dressed in white tie and tails on his way to dine with some grandee not infrequently Winston Churchill, about whom he had much to tell. Long before European unity was a fashionable cause it was embraced by Coote. About the US his feelings were less warm, and he hated going there himself, thinking it a place suitable only for the younger man. Not a great innovative editor, perhaps still less an inspiring crusader bent on putting the world to rights.

But a thoroughly civilising influence, steeped in history, of nemg tor the state of earnings in tH profession and lo propose rates of remuneration out of public funds. Despite elaborate remuneration surveys done ftfr the commission, the, report has virtually no data on the levl of profitability of lawyers' work. This made it impossible for the commission to reach any detailed findings on the present pricing of different categories of work. But on the basis of information about other comparable groups thfe commission has concluded that in some respects at least the legal profession has a case fc wanting higher remuneration. The main piece of new machinery to be proposed is a Legal Services Council with a full-time lawyer chairman which would be a quango independent of government.

Thfe council would have the duty 0 monitoring and reporting on the state of legal services'. It would have regional offshoot modelled somewhat on th legal services committee established by the Law Society in 1977 in Greater Manchester. The members of the Legal Services Council would be lawyers and laymen appointed by the Lord Chancellor. Its maiil remit would be legal services funded out of public moneys, but it would also have the right to review matters affecting privatEly funded work The report recommends that more public money be devoted to the training of the staff of Citizen's Advice Bureaux to provide the first ti5r of advice for ordinary clients. But the commission approves the coni tinuing growth of law centres to complement the work of private solicitors.

have been broken in this case. The favourite to succeed to the job was Mr Ron Todd, the union's national organiser, who is closely connected to Mr Evans. The other main contenders for the job were Mr Larry Smith, the union's national bus secretary, and Mr John Miller, who has overall charge of the chemical industry, and is another Left-winger. Mr Kitson said last night that he was delighted at the appointment Mr Kitson is a member of the Labour Party's national executive committee and caused an upset IS montsh agD when he went to Moscow and delivered a speech criticising Britain's economic system. He was subsequently removed from the chairmanship of Labour's organisation committee.

In recent months he was responsible for coordinating the lorry drivers' strike. to Cabinet knowledge that the Government is about to cream off cer-tan profitable sections of nationalised industry undertakings, Mr Lea argued that public enterprise and public service were at least as important for the economy and social welfare of the people as private enterprise and the City cf London. The TUC leader stressed that nationalised industries played a positive part in the economy as a whole, including overseas projects. He also emphasised that the National Enterprise Board's powers of initiative must not be destroyed just as it had begun to succeed in its vital task. Ulster jobs pledge From Anne McHardy in Belfast The Northern Ireland Secretary, Mr Humphrey Atkins, said yesterday that public spending in the province would be cut.

but he would try to save jobs. At his first meeting with the Northern Ireland Economics Council, he said I fully realise that the Northern Ireland economy has special problems. The significantly higher level of unemployment is one. This will be taken into account rt'hen framing new policy." But the Government's basis objective was to put life back into the economy by creating a-climate which is conducive to growth," and to private enterprise. His speech was clearly de signed to allay fears that therrf would be immediate and widej" ranging cuts in grants to ins.

dustry. Northern Ireland has' much higher incentive for in' vestors than any other part the UK. On Thursday a further in- veftmpnt nf mnnnv fpnm" the European regional develop' ment tuna was announced. Department of Commerce in Belfast said that a grant frong Europe of over 5 millions', would be spent on the Post Oftice and on improving docks. 3-day reprieve what a good employer he' would make.

It was not the first royal visit, to the Pcckham, South London, offices of the union, which with 1.2' million members Is now Britain's tiecond biggest. The Duke of Edinburgh went round in 19G7 and King George VI did fio in 1929, when he was the Duke of York and the AUEW was the Associated Society of Engineers. But it was the first visit bv an unmarried and eligible Details of the inquiry report, which has not been officially became known yesterday. It found that Mr Szaj-kowski's claim to have the MA must be regarded as unsubstantiated." He has been given special paid leave of absence until next April, when he will leave by agreement. The three-man inquiry says that the case could have been cleared up a year ago if Professor John Cross, head of the department where Mr Szajkowski -worked, had-been earlier of the doubts by Dr Bevan, Professor Evans and Professor Sheridan.

They decided that the lecturer's claim was "substantially correct" but did not tell Professor Cross, apparently as a result of an He heard only last November and then only indirectly," This had meant a significant delay in dealing with the case that even a temporary closure would force industry to seek other methods to dispose of such poisons as cyanide. But yesterday a construction crew arrived on the Redland-Purle land under a site manager who has been responsible for building emergency highways in Nigeria, and the company expects to have a temporary, gravelled road in. use by- the middle of next week. In case of bad weather it was decided to seek a further legal delaying action against the council, and yesterday a High Court judge issued a temporary injunction preventing Basildon from closing the existing road until Friday. that.

time we hope to have our own access in use," said a spokesman for Redland-Purle. It could even be completed over the weekend. It will continue in use while we put in a hard-surface road, which will take a little longer." the university, of Albert Grove, Leeds; Mr Leslie James Hewitt, 53, of Clara Bricken, Kilkenny, Republic of Ireland, the former head of the university's photographic department and Mr Albert Pegg, 56, of Mill Road, Chorefleld Heath, Norfolk, Mr Hewitt's former assistant, had all denied conspiring together to defraud the university. The judge said that the Crown's case was based on the that the three men put their heads together and agreed to do something Pitsea toxic member of the Royal Family, which probably explained why the predominatly female office staff of 200-odd were dressed to kill and vibrant with excitement. Royal contact with the staff consisted largely of asking them to which union they belonged.

In most cases the answer was APEX, since the majority arc clerical, computer and accounts staff. But Ms Marlcne Robe, in the computer department, asked the Prince if lie would mind if she kissed him, and and Professor Cross cause for complaint. Mr Szajkowski told the inquiry that he had completed four years of the five-year Warsaw MA course before leaving Poland. Later he had been told in a letter from a friend that his name had been read out at a degree ceremony. But he was unable to show the inquiry the correspondence.

Its report says that he would have had to defend a dissertation to obtain the degree, and infers that he was unable to do this because he had left Poland. It was "impossible for him to continue working in the department. Yesterday Dr Bevan would say only that the report was private. Mr Szajkowski said he had reached the agreement on leave of absence under duress and to ensure that his family was clothed and fed Hospital theatre danger THE LEVELS of "knock-out" gases in many hospital operating theatres far exceed safety guidelines, said a report yesterday. Even! in modern, fully air-conditioned theatres the concentration of gas," nitrous oxide, was more than one and a half times the recommended levels.

In theatres with no pollution control the average background level of nitrous oxide was more than 20 times higher. That of hallo-thane was four times higher. Even higher levels were found in some dental clinics. Only in theatres which were ventilated and where anaesthetic pollution was removed from the patient's mouth by "scavenging" did gas levels fall within permissible levels. The report, published in the Lancet, is based on a survey of pollution by waste anaesthetic gases measured in all operating departments in the eastern district of the Greater Glasgow Health Board.

The six authors, who say that this is a typical National Health Service district, call for scavenging and ventilation systems 'to control pollution in theatres. Mr Ian MacDonald, an analyst at the University Department of Anaesthesia, Glasgow Royal Infirmary, said We should be entitled to work in an atmosphere as free from pollution as we can possibly get." The report adds We suspect that Insufficient attention Is being paid to the problems of dental anaesthesia. "In the four dental clinics in the district where no pollution control measures were taken the concentrations measured were among the highest found in the whole survey." But Air Ronald Allen, the, secretary of the British Dental Association, said that dentists had not complained of any ill-effects on their health. While gas levels might, be high, the number of tunes a general anaesthetic was given was very much lower than in a hospital operating theatre. By a Staff Reporter A waste, disposal company yesterday won an extra three days in its fight to keep the toxic waste dump at Pitsea, Essex, in operation.

At the same time bulldozers were starting work on an emergency mile-long road to the site. Lp to 50 tankers a day bring liquid poisons to the site, using a private road owned by Easil-don Council. This week the council, long opposed to the dump, decided to close the road from next Tuesday, after the company, Redland-Purle, had lost the final stage of a legal battle to keep existing access open. Last week the Secretary of State for the Environment had given the -company permission to build an alternative road through land it has bought. Its construction normally take up to six months, and Basildon councillors thought By Keith Harper, Labour Editor Britain's largest union, the Transport and General Workers', has appointed a prominent left-winger, Mr Alex Kitson, to bo number two to Mr Moss Evans, its general secretary Mr Kitson, who is 57, will replace Mr Harry Urwin, the union's assistant general secretary, who retires next February.

As tilings stand, however, it is extremely unlikely that Mr Kitson will get the top job, since he is nearly four years older than Mr Evans The appointment is important because it has usually been up to the general secretary lo decide who shall be his deputy. While Mr Kitson is the most senior after T.Ir Urwin in the TGWU hierarchy, custom and practice seem to aming By Keith Harper, Labour Editor The TUC yesterday declared its intention to oppose Government attempts to sell profitable nationalised industries, including parts of the Post Oflice. The warning was issued bv Mr 'David Lea, TUC assistant general secretary, at the annual conference of the Post Office Engineering Union at Blackpool. He told delegates that selling profitable parts of telecommunications, far from being in the interests of the customer, would undermine the investment which had been made in the industry. Speaking in the certain Sir Colin Coote literature and the joys of good living, particularly food and drink, which he dispensed like everything else with enthusiastic prodigality.

Bitchiness, sourness and malice were foreign to his character. Hi Toryism was worn lightly, allowing him and the ret of us plenty of ideological flexibility. Those were the good old davs in Fleet Street, to wliieh Cooio contributed more than mcit. Vcrcri'i'ie Vnrstlioriie is Associate Editor 0 the Sunday Tdcgraph editor tot Jm Singer Marianne aged 32, and punk rock guitarist Isn Brierlcy, aged 27, after their marriage at Chelsea register office in London yesterday. The bride, a former girlfriend of Rolling Stone Mick Jagger, found fame in the 1960s with the song As Tears Go By Sir Colin Coote, liberal Three acquitted of books fraud conspiracy A Jury yesterday acquitted three men charged with conspiring to defraud Leeds University.

Their acquittal at Leeds Crown Court, sitting at Knareshorough, came on the fourth day of the trial and after three' hours of legal submissions. When he recalled the jury, Judge Donald Herrod, QC, told them that even with 31 Crown witnesses still to be called he had come-' to the conclusion that there no evidence on which the case could continue. Dr George Richard Rastall, aged 38, lecturer in music at SIR COLIN COOTE, manag-ing editor of the Daily Telegraph from 1950 to 1964, died at his London home yesterday, aged 83. A former Tory MP for the Isle of Ely, he became deputy editor of the Daily Telegraph in 1954, three years after joining the paper and became managing editor five years later. Educated at Rugby and Balliol College, Oxford, he was knighted in 1962.

Peregrine Worsthorne writes Sir Colin Coote Was a marvellous editor whose qualities struck me as all the more admirable by comparison-with those of the editor for whom I had worked previously, Sir William Haley of the Times. Where Sir William had imposed an iron intellectual discipline, allowing his leader writers no latitude for 'personal idiosyncrasies, Sir Colin would take positive delight in letting them have their, head, thus actually practising the liberalism which Sir. William only preached. editorial conferences were" a delight to attend, since although his appearance was immensely impressive and over-powering, like Hollywood's idea of an English elder statesman, the man himself was the soul of easy-going tolerance, ever willing to consider new ideas and new ways of expressing old ones. His only quirk, more endearing than irritating, was to pretend that he had thought of the idea first, because he could never bear to be behind the times, still OBITUARY less the Times, where his own journalistic career had begun.

(He resigned after Munich, sickened by the Printing House Square policy of appeasement. As a writer he was fluent, never penning a dull or inelegant sentence. Because his personal experience included gallant service in the trenches, youthful membership. of Parliament he was at one time the baby of the House journalistic service in fascist Italy, and friendship all the great ENJOY SUCCESS LIFE RICHES Ufa Dynamics shows how 00 VDU want to lead a richer life? Do you long for success which never comes? Or feel Von am betna stonoed frofo doing things which make you molt happy? If success money love have escaped you DO NOT GIVE tiplife, Dynamics can show you how to become the person you want to be: sure of youmir eblo to solve any problem nd take your share of the good things in life. UFE DYNAMICS takes' up lust fifteen minutes of your day.

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