It has been sagely suggested though not in today's document that judges who nurture such fears might

It has been sagely suggested, though not in today's document, that judges who nurture such fears might perhaps wear wigs not in court, but when venturing into the hurly-burly of, say, their local supermarkets.Much the strongest argument in favour of abolition is that wigs in particular reinforce the impression that the law is antiquated and out of touch with modern life. Impressed, it would seem, by his high level contacts - and that includes the president of China, Yang Shangkun, and an awesome list of senior officials whose names cover nearly six pages at the end of the book - he churns out every revelation and opinion uncritically, sometimes interposing but seldom illuminating Another shortcoming: his information is by word of mouth. This was refused by the two other abbots since, they claimed, it was a sacred document.It was decided that Jamgon should be the one to undertake the search in Tibet and bring the boy back. (Only a tiny proportion is female, because women are afraid of the crime that kills a few drivers every week in New York.)The TLC requires new drivers to take a minimum 20-hour taxi- training course in city geography, passenger relations, safe driving skills and TLC rules in order to get a licence to drive one of the city's 11,787 yellow medallioned cabs. THE PROBLEM with Fame, at least as a subject for a television series, is that it's a bit too famous. For a while there were suggestions that the classical side might be recession-proof - that the kind of buyer it appealed to belonged to an economically secure social group and 'comfort buying' was an important factor.

It looked like the beginning of the end for a magazine that has collected more law suits than the tailor in Chancery Lane. You might reasonably wonder how a monthly about fish could possibly attract even a rude letter But Hall has been sued by the very best, including the Sun. Only the United States and Germany have posted ambassadors to Tbilisi and Western diplomats in the Caucasus say they are walking a tightrope. According to high-grade tittle-tattle in the echoing corridors of the Treasury, Clarke seems to have excluded Portillo from some of the key decision-making meetings in the run-up to the Budget next month. Portillo was mysteriously not invited to animportant meeting recently on the future of the defence budget - one of his key responsibilities - and is said to have been hopping mad. It is people like him who George Henderson, national secretary of the construction arm of the TGWU, was addressing this week when he urged Britain's 300,000 building workers to silence their wolf-whistles and lewd comments - as traditional on some building sites as visible bottom cleavage. 'For some people, the whole thing may seem to be just a joke.

IT WAS the summer of 1992 again. 'But don't be misled by Latin names like repens and pyramidalis ,' he warns. Jon Devaney, who did enjoy it, said: 'It took a long time, and if some people get bored and leave early, it makes a mess of the game.' Others said it took too long and was hard to organise.. But one of the general rules of politics must be that those who are most enchanted by the trappings of power are the most likely to abuse it. THE departure of Sir Neville Bowman-Shaw from Lancer Boss removes a colourful character from an increasingly grey industrial scene, writes David Bowen.