Obiter is pleased to announce the five lucky winners of last week’s competition for a free copy of the first series of Law & Order: UK, by completing the sentence, ‘I think I should star in my own TV legal drama because…’. The best entry came from Paul Nicholls of Smith Jones in Kenilworth, whose answer also fulfilled last week’s request for confessions of courtroom bloopers. He said: ‘… because I feel I am a poor man’s Rumpole. Once before a particularly fearsome judge at Birmingham County Court, I looked down at my notes and froze. I realised I was wearing two different shoes – one brown, one black. I lost my place and had to confess to the judge, who asked me to walk round and show him. We were both tittering so much we had to adjourn to compose ourselves, while I rushed out to buy a new pair of shoes.’ Hopefully Nicholls does not wear a wig in court; otherwise, Obiter can all too easily imagine him accidentally turning up with a giant afro headpiece by mistake. Other winners are David Lunn at Gowen & Stevens, who wants to star in a TV legal drama because ‘to star in an illegal drama would be quite wrong’; Charnjit Sandhu, whose high-street practice (unnamed, perhaps wisely), ‘makes EastEnders seem dull’; David Bywater, commercial insurance lawyer at Weightmans in London who claims he is ‘good at soliciting’; and Adrian Brodkin of Adrian & Co in London, who claims tongue in cheek that he should star in his own drama because ‘I am the only person left in this office who hasn’t lost the plot’. We know how you feel, Adrian. All five winners will receive their DVD shortly. Watch out for another competition to win a copy of series two of the same hit show next month.