Obiter has been mightily amused by the stunning ‘legal musical’ plotlines submitted in our competition to win two tickets to the West End show, Legally Blonde: The Musical. Plots included a secret love child conceived during a post-deal celebration; gangs of lawyers engaging in hand-to-hand combat with accredited alternative business structures (including the hit songs There’s No Business Like Old Business and You’ll Never Work At Home); and an intriguing subplot whereby the Legal Services Board is outsourced to Bolivia. But the prize has to go to Ashley Harkus, partner at Newport firm Everett Tomlin Lloyd & Pratt, for his Elvis-themed take on the recent family legal aid debacle. In act one, the cast and audience attempt to complete and ‘return to tender’. The act ends with almost half of the audience being unexpectedly asked to leave. At the interval, Harkus envisages that choc ices and judicial review application packs will be available, while in act two, in a ‘Dallas-style shower sequence’, the LSC decides that the first act was actually a horrible dream. The finale sees the cast singing a medley of Don’t Be Cruel, All Shook Up and Don’t Ask Me Why. Bravo, we say. Tickets on their way, Mr Harkus.