Having been an LAE for many years I can see part of the problem just reading this thread.
When I started in the 50's the LAE was God as far as maintenance was concerned.
There was no higher authority.
Reading the thread we see LAE' being threatened and put under pressure by
" Management", " supervisors", " managers" etc, none of whom have to put their signatures on the paper!
Also regarding another comment " in the Old Days"
we had ARB ( yes ARB !!) inspectors at the airline most weeks actually watching guys working and checking log book entries. Cant remember when I last saw a CAA guy doing that
