I write in response to the letter from Jonathan Barrett (12 December 2003, page 20) concerning Jan Luba QC’s “Case of the week” on county court antisocial behaviour orders.

The “principal proceedings” to which the ASBO applications were subsequently attached were, in fact, Section 152 Injunction Applications pursuant to the 1996 Housing Act against a former tenant’s sons – not possession proceedings against the tenant.

As for the proposed “banging of heads”, perhaps the old adage “empty vessels make the loudest noise” is an apt response.