As well as pre-contract enquiries that are unnecessary (letter, 24 November), some are so abstruse as to be downright amusing.

A fellow solicitor acting for the other side in a recent conveyancing transaction told me that she had been asked ‘has there been any poltergeist activity at the premises?’. I suppose the reply should have been ‘not a ghost of a chance’.

Barry Borman, Edgware

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