Who says German lawyers don’t inject an element of fun into the law? Certainly not the old Taylor Joynson Garrett partnership,which has apparently learned the joys of laughter from those wacky scamps at Wessing.

At least according to Taylor Wessing head Michael Frawley, who told The Diary it wasn’t until the TJG posse got together with its German and French arms that the firm revised the official core vales.