Following last week’s ‘final’ episode of the popular dictation blunders series, soft-hearted old Obiter has caved in to pleas for just one more instalment. Here are a few more amusing leaps of logic made by legal secretaries. Mike Thomson, director at Arnold Thomson in Towcester, Northamptonshire, recalls: ‘Years ago when signatories were supposed to utter the words, "I deliver this as my act and deed" when executing documents, a secretary requested the client to deliver the deed "at Acton Green". Some confusion followed.’ He adds: ‘When sending a will for signature, the testator was requested "to sing in the presence of two witnesses". Subsequent client relations were far from harmonious.’ Boom, boom. Stephen Hadley, a partner at KJD in Stoke-on-Trent, recounts: ‘During my training I was finishing off my master’s degree. I wanted to send a section of my thesis to my supervisor in Alberta, Canada. The letter (well before email) came back enclosing the next "portion of my faeces".’ Everyone’s a critic, Stephen.