At the recent Bar Council annual conference, chairman Stephen Hockman QC announced a series of measures to enhance the reputation of barristers. This is to include a pamphlet called 'Today's Bar: Barristers Working in the Public Interest' that is intended to 'demystify' their work and 'rebut harmful myths', presumably that they are all larger than the average feline and err to the side of pomposity. This plan to rescue the bar's image saw the chairman head off a few days later to meet the co-ordinators of the Innocence Network UK, which supervises Innocence Projects - student pro bono initiatives looking at the safety of long-term prisoners' convictions. Such projects are, of course, the inspiration for the new primetime BBC One drama series 'The Innocence Project'. Apparently Mr Hockman is 'very interested in exploring ways in which the bar might support the work these students are doing'. Could there be room in the BBC's schedules for a spin-off series called 'The Bandwagon Project', where our plucky hero goes off in search of potential good news stories that he can climb aboard?