Speaking in tongues: It is fair to say that many firms still have to come to terms with modern English, and ditch their 'hereintobefores' and their Latin phrases.

And as the partners of Hampshire firm Daltons show, they can't even relax as normal people do.

This picture is not some sort of reading help for children, but a celebration of the firm's 15th anniversary.

Pictured are Michael Dalton (as readers may recall, the scourge of the Solicitors Indemnity Fund over his 1999 judicial review against the Law Society) and Rebecca Todd.