Sir, – It is good to see that some District Court judges are exercising their judicial independence to determine cases coming before them by making use of the poor box instead of imposing fines for some minor breach of the Road Traffic Act ("Use of 'poor box' for driving offences persists despite ruling", August 14th).
Should we all be morally outraged by this behaviour? I don’t believe so. – Yours, etc,
THOMAS J CLARKE,
Dublin 13.