Skoda 25/07A media circus accompanied Simmons & Simmons partner David Sandy around the City of London the other day as he visited various newspaper offices in a bid to get his hands on copies of a leaked document on behalf of his client, Interbrew.

At times, however, you could be forgiven for wondering whether some of the papers that covered the event were more interested in the car he was being ferried about in – a blue Skoda – than the actual purpose of his visits.