Called to the bar: somebody has been half-inching the Law Society President's drinks. It happened to her interval refreshments at the Royal Opera House, the ones you order and pay for before the performance starts, but Fiona Woolf isn't blaming the Phantom. On the contrary, she said in her keynote address to the International Corporate Counsel Conference in London last week, a certain distinguished retired gentleman is in the frame. 'He's no relation,' Ms Woolf protested, 'but the spelling's the same and he naturally assumed the order was his. And who am I to judge?' Lord knows to whom she is referring.
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