Combine the power of the web and a very grumpy judge and you get cracking reads, as we journalists say.

Judge Gledhill QC's public dressing down of three solicitor-advocates led to solicitors storming the Gazette’s website – the article was by a huge margin the most-read and most-commented-on online piece in the past four weeks, doing more than twice as well as the nearest news story and pulling in thousands of readers.

If one includes those reading and commenting on the articles that followed in its wake, the issue has dominated the Gazette's online readership figures.

One of Judge Gledhill’s complaints was that a solicitor-advocate had directly addressed the jury. Obiter wonders if the courts are just getting narked about solicitors wearing wigs in court, which must confuse the heck out of the bench and their learned friends on the floor. Perhaps solicitor-advocates should do even more to get attention in court – they must be tired of being mistaken for the usher – and adopting the horsehair lid is the best way of doing that. But for good or ill, everyone has garnered plenty of attention now.