Time to announce the five lucky winners of last month’s competition to win copies of series two of Law & Order: UK. Readers were asked to come up with an amusing ending to the following sentence: ‘If there were a TV show called Lawyers Who Do Silly Things, I could be the main character because…’

Obiter is pleased to report that readers’ daftness did not disappoint. We particularly liked the answer from Stacey Redman – or should that be Ally McBeal – solicitor at Worcestershire firm March & Edwards, who said: ‘During my first week as a trainee solicitor, while being rushed to the magistrates’ court by my supervising partner, I caught the front of my new "I’m gonna be a lawyer" shoes in the hem of my new suit trousers and went crashing to the floor on all fours in the middle of the road. We were slightly late for court, so the partner announced to the judge, "sorry we’re late, my trainee fell over" while I hid at the back of the court, red-faced.’ Those supervising partners can be so cruel.

Still on the wardrobe malfunction theme, David Roper says he ‘once made a five-inch split up my trousers trying to pick up a printer from the office floor’. We’ve all been there, David. Adrian Brodkin admits to being a silly lawyer because ‘more than once I’ve trusted a client who assured me that he would pay after the court hearing’, while Justin Atkinson says he’s daft because ‘I qualified as a solicitor and then bought a wig to look like a barrister’. He’s probably not the only one guilty of that particular folly.

Katherine Bunting says she is ‘one sandwich short of a picnic’ because ‘I actually believe there is a future for quality residential conveyancing done by professionals and charged at a proper price’. Let’s hope that notion doesn’t turn out to be a joke.