Is there, Obiter sometimes wonders, a genetic imperative encoded into the DNA of every solicitor, that makes them physically unable to allow any error to slip past uncorrected? It is, no doubt, this unrelenting quest for accuracy – rather than any desire to make mischief – that prompted Neil Howlett, a solicitor at Somerset firm Harris & Harris, to point out a blunder by five members of the Crown Prosecution Service when they entered the TV quiz show Eggheads, as reported by this column last month. He says: ‘It isn't surprising that the CPS team calling themselves Five Blind Ladies lost on Eggheads if they called themselves that after the statue of "blind" Justice on top of the Old Bailey in London. They obviously didn’t look last time they were there – she isn't blind (or at least, contrary to what many people believe, she isn’t blindfolded).’ He adds: ‘I will refrain from making any comments about the ability of the CPS generally, but only hope that the team check their facts a little more carefully before they go to court next time or they could end up with egg on their faces.’