Hell hath no fury...

One unnamed high-street solicitor obviously reached the end of her tether recently when asked to reply to a Law Society questionnaire about the future regulation of the profession, and also gave the Society's ruling Council a laugh last week when her replies were relayed by Ed Nally, chairman of the regulation review working party.

Firstly, she went completely off piste and started making her own tick boxes.

In response to a question about whether she agreed with the Law Society's 'vision' for regulation, she preferred her own, ticking: 'Want to vomit every time you read a mission statement.' Asking 'Do you agree with our key principles of good rulemaking?' was clearly asking for trouble; her preferred response was: 'Feel completely depressed by the questionnaire.' By the time she reached question four, all hell had broken loose.

Although the aggrieved respondent maintained it was 're-stating the bleeding obvious' to ask about integrity as a core duty of the profession, she was no longer amused: 'I refuse, however, to analyse the strength (or breadth) of my agreement or tick one of your puerile boxes.

It's like completing a Cosmopolitan questionnaire about my sex life (that's a joke; I'm a lawyer).' Good to see that high-street solicitors have retained their sense of humour.