Gazette wrists are still smarting from the firm slap administered by solicitor Mrs K A Jordan, a partner at Leeds firm Blacks, in relation to a recent news item. The story, about legal executives and will-writers potentially being given new probate rights by the Institute of Legal Executives, set Jordan’s blood boiling. ‘I was dismayed to read your article in the Gazette of 2 September (page two),’ she wrote. ‘The language used is dreadful.’ Had the Gazette inadvertently insulted legal executive colleagues, or adopted a derogatory tone towards will-writers? Not exactly. ‘Never in twenty-one years have I made a grant of probate or performed a grant of probate,’ continued Jordan. ‘The terms to use are to apply for a grant of probate or extract a grant of probate from the Probate Registry. There is no hope for the Law Society if the topic can’t even be discussed in the correct way.’ And in a final knockout blow, she added: ‘Making a probate or performing a probate sounds like something I missed on Blue Peter.’ Message contritely received.