It pleases Obiter that the way the advertisements on the walls of Chancery Lane Underground station reflect the district’s dominant ‘industry’. Though we expect many of the 16 million people who pass through the station every year are mystified by plugs for legal directories and textbooks.

The station has even more of a village feel this week with cross-track sheets, illuminated corridor billboards and escalator panels emblazoned with an 11-word message beginning ‘Guess who’s back…’.

Insiders, of course, will get the point that, four years after national firm Slater and Gordon quit 52 Chancery Lane, it has returned to the ’hood. In the latest twist of its office rationalisation strategy, the firm has taken one floor of 22 Chancery Lane, handily located over the road from Ede & Ravenscroft legal outfitters and the Knights Templar public house (purveyor of Greene King IPA at a locally unbeatable £2.49 a pint).

We’re not quite sure what the point of the ‘station domination’ campaign is: legal services are not usually an impulse purchase. But welcome back, anyway. It’s a further sign of Chancery Lane’s resilience, after a couple of grim years.

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