Centre of excellence
refers to a team, a shared facility or an entity that provides leadership,
evangelization, best practices, research, support and/or training for a focus
area. “Harley Street”
would be considered such a centre;
indeed “London”
by extrapolation could be considered a centre of excellence in medicine,
associated technology and treatment. Thousands of foreigners annually certainly
consider it so. In a similar fashion the term “Silicone Valley”
has but one connotation built up over many years. Add “Hollywood”
or “Bollywood” and the meaning is clear.
And for legal expertise all one has to say is Inns of Court.
In this age of
instant visual anywhere communication, a facility available only in science
fiction when I was a student, face to face inter actions can be reduced,
avoided or valued as the case might be.
Internet dating sites are arguably better introductory media than any
previously devised but only as a prelude to two people actually being in such
proximity to each other than true interchange of personality etc can be
made. The same can be said of any
intimate conversation whether between individuals and family members, friends, medical advisors or
let it be said; lawyers. In all these
examples one`s soul is bared to another person and in my humble opinion that
cannot be best undertaken on Skype. The Lord Chief Justice thinks otherwise.
There are many
excellent legal firms and chambers north of Watford but as a centre of
excellence London
with its high prices, extortionate business rents and high incomes per capita is
as honey to a bee. Indeed the major London legal firms have
never had it so good. Hundreds of years
of history and human nature cannot be changed by dictat. It sounds too much that the great man might
have had his ear bent by politicians.
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