Mean, moody and ready to play

All the law's a stage, and all the lawyers merely players, Shakespeare once wrote (in his first draft, at least).

And with their Hollywood-style posing, the good folk of north-west firm Mace & Jones will this week prove the point by putting on a mock employment tribunal for clients.

Partners Emlyn Williams and Michael Malone (below, first and second left) play Eddie Groper and Michael Groper in this tale of sexual harassment (never trust a man in a jumper, Obiter suggests), while trainee solicitor Sarah Walton is to play the victim.

But Alan Coventry is the one with the toughest task.

He will have to bring all of his 20 years of experience as chairman of Liverpool Employment Tribunal to bear in his role as...

chairman of the tribunal.