Lawyers

I found it rather depressing this morning to read, in the Guardian's front page lead, of well paid, high ranking lawyers, no doubt living in well heeled suburbs of London, working themselves up into a lather of righteous indignation about the tragedy of Grenfell Tower.

Mood not improved by reading that the inquiry is consuming - or at least acquiring - millions and millions of documents.

Lawyers and inquiries are a necessary consequence of tragedy, but once again one is left with the feeling, as with Brexit, that it is the lawyers who will be the winners.

I wonder if, when all the dust settles, it will not be obvious that better justice would have been done had all the money spent on lawyers and inquiries simply been divi'd up between the former residents of the tower. Bearing in mind that simple is probably not the right word here: a fair divi'ing up is hard to achieve in these sorts of situations.

PS: my argument would not be much dented if I were to learn that some of the well paid lawyers had, on this occasion, waived all or some of their fees.