The Law Society’s headquarters are only 100 yards from Fleet Street so it’s not difficult to imagine the echoes of newspaper editors past barking: “Send for reinforcements! We’re all out of legal correspondents!”

Seemingly every story over the last 72 hours has had a legal dimension. Yesterday saw the first of an expected five-day private hearing to reach a financial settlement between Heather Mills and Paul McCartney – a High Court case that will decide whether she will be a very rich millionaire or, well, a very, very rich millionaire…