The Stobart Group to enter the legal market?! It hardly seemed the most obvious Tesco Law-style move, but the recent announcement that the company is to offer direct public access to a panel of barristers has been driven by its legal team’s own innovations and is the latest example of a practice being repeated in-house across the UK.

The logistics business and parent of the Eddie Stobart lorry fleet has launched the service to link members of the public and businesses direct to a barrister for a fixed fee without needing to employ a solicitor.