Who says litigation is dead? Certainly no-one at Brick Court Chambers, which found itself at the centre of a very public row over the fate of a very sacred cow.

Shambo the Temple Bull, beloved of worshippers at the Community for the Many Names of God, was famously the subject of a fierce tug-of-law last week after the blessed beast was suspected to have contracted bovine tuberculosis – incurring an immediate death sentence from the Welsh Assembly.