Getting down with the clubbers

Lawyers have always prided themselves on keeping it real.

And being down with the kids.

Many have still got love for the streets.

Indeed.

None more so, it appears, than Norwich firm Howes Percival, which is helping to promote safer clubbing in Norfolk by training licensees in drug awareness issues.

The firm is working with the British Institute of Innkeeping Awarding Body to train bar-owners in the legal implications of drug taking on their premises.

Although the uninitiated may question how many pilled-out teenagers and smoke-filled crack dens there really are in the fenlands, Obiter nonetheless applauds the firm's initiative, and looks forward to seeing the practice's partners whipping up a storm on the dance floor.