It is high time The Diary delved back in to the steamy world of the Bar, courtesy of the Bar Council’s highly informative ethical guidance column in Bar News.

Regular readers of The Diary will know that, thanks to Bar News, it is OK for a barrister to bed an opposing solicitor, as long as the hanky-panky takes place after the case they were involved in is spent, so to speak. But what if the person you are lusting after is not the opposing solicitor, but that lithe young hunk in the clerks’ room.