It is usual and customary in our lawyer bashing pieces for your faithful correspondent to inflict the kicks and punches on this worthy profession. However, this time it seems two esteemed counsel have saved us the trouble.

Barrister Alex Mehta, legal director of legal services company Judicium, and Puff Daddy’s (or P Diddy as he now likes to be known) New York attorney, Ian Niles, will be quite literally squaring up in a boxing ring in order to inflict blows on one another – and all in the name of charity.