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Micro-lending sector is the true picture of unrelenting terror of Covid-19 pandemic

The Law Society has just announced the death of its 16th member this year. Last year we lost about 40 members. Before the pandemic, we lost an average of 15 lawyers every year.

Remember; lawyers are not frontline workers. The story is absolutely horrendous in the medical sector where I am told the numbers have gone up many-fold. I say this to emphasise that Covid-19 is real and the battering of families is vicious. Doubtless, its management requires “abnormal” action.

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