Something of the knight: that died in the wool bastion of left-wing human rights campaigning, solicitor Geoffrey Bindman, celebrated his partial entry into the establishment - a knighthood in the New Year's Honours list (see [2007] Gazette, 4 January, 3) - with a little shindig at the Royal College of Surgeons in London's Lincoln's Inn Fields last week. The great and the good of the civil liberties world turned out in force to mark the occasion and recognise a long career of worthy achievement (indeed, Sir Geoffrey picked up the Gazette's human rights lifetime prize at our centenary awards several years ago, which some might suggest is an even bigger honour). In his brief remarks, the founder of London law firm Bindman & Partners joked that his one disappointment at bagging a 'K' was that it 'came without a salary'. On second thoughts, realising that Sir Geoffrey has spent many a long year working a great deal in the legal aid sector, that comment might be less flippant than it first appears.