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Solicitors at Birmingham firm The Wilkes Partnership certainly do their homework, Obiter has discovered.

Facing the challenge of a business conference in Munich with their allied German firm - which also just happens to coincide with the Oktoberfest - the lawyers descended on, erm, Mr Bill's Beer Keller in Birmingham to test their stein-lifting skills in a salute to Anglo-German relations.

'Is gonna be a very, very, very good confidence,' one of them slurred to us afterwards.

'Did I tell you that I love you?'