One of the more obvious truisms in modern business is that for every success story there are inevitably tales of woe, where concerns that failed to thrive find themselves extinguished. Yet it nevertheless comes as something of a shock when one such hard-luck story involves a respected name like 10-11 Gray’s Inn Square.

Just months after it emerged that 40-tenant civil set 199 Strand was to dissolve came the news that another well-regarded chambers – in the form of 10-11 Gray’s Inn – was also nearing the end of its current incarnation.