Lawyers involved in the case have described it as a distressing example of the breakdown of moral and social values on a council estate.

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As we democratize language and literacy we have to resist the temptation to see in its evolution a sort of breakdown or moral failure simply because not everyone speaks or writes as well as the Bard or as Ralph Fiennes.

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He says the case was a breakdown of the usual measures, which rely on moral suasion.

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