It is fair to say that an invitation to a local law society dinner is not everyone's idea of a big night out. Hats off then to the Nottinghamshire Law Society, which for its annual dinner on 3 March has come up with one of the most unlikely combinations yet for after-dinner entertainment. 'I know 'cos I was there,' the flyer says. 'You could be there too when Max Boyce [left] meets the Lord Chancellor.' Although the Welsh entertainer and rugby fan's thoughts on Clementi, the new supreme court, the Carter review of legal aid and the other great legal issues of the day are unclear, the lyrics of one of his songs - 1971's seminal 'At the bottom of the garden' - suggest he's not entirely pro-lawyer.

'At the bottom of the garden there's a place you all know; Where everybody hurries but they try not to show.


Though colliers and lawyers and JPs and earls; Teachers and preachers and young boys and girls.


CHORUS


Singing Toora-ly, oora-ly, oora-ly, ay.


Have you been down there, my darlings, today?


Where there ain't any telly and there isn't a phone.


Where even the King has to go on his own!


They can have their fine mansions and their ivory walls,


They can have their stained windows and echoey halls.


But I'll never be envious although I'm alone.


I'm happy to sit on my own little throne...'


So don't get on your high horses then, he seems to be saying - you lawyer-types have to use the loo just like the rest of us.


It could be an exciting evening - perhaps Lord Falconer of Thoroton will be inspired to respond to his Welsh counterpart with a Scottish-influenced ditty of his own.


One can but hope - needless to say, 'you do need to book early'.