It is a truth universally acknowledged that any half-decent literary effort needs a cracking introduction that grabs you by the proverbials and does not let go. Indeed, it seems Justice Peter Smith was not the only legal eagle with literary pretensions last week, as The Diary’s virtual desk groaned under a barrage of law firm press releases containing some of the clumsiest prose ever committed to PDF.
Colchester giant Birkett Long opted for a Proustian extended metaphor to open its evocative report on the hire of two new property solicitors.
