And finallys… the best of 2016
Over the past year, our And finally section - with the most absurd, offbeat, strange or funny legal stories - has kept lawyers entertained.
Here, we list our 10 most popular stories of 2016:
An Australian man’s five-year battle to use a crude drawing of a penis as his signature inspired him to enrol at law school.
A man who claims to be the Archangel Michael told the Court of Session not to allow independence campaigners to be evicted from the grounds of the Scottish Parliament.
A disbarred lawyer who was jailed for corruption and attempting to bribe a judge has been named as the world’s richest solicitor.
A woman who claimed she was on her way to a wool shop when she tailed and attacked a fellow driver has been told she must prove her knitting prowess by producing a “not meagre amount” of “multiple knitted items” to be sold to a charity shop.
An alleged burglar who claimed to be a lawyer standing in his own garden was arrested in a Northern Ireland town.
A 27-year-old man who changed his name to Buzz Lightyear to raise money for charity has won a year-long struggle to have a UK driving license issued in his acquired name.
A married man admitted telling his brother to supply a DNA sample on his behalf in a bid to avoid making child maintenance payments to the woman he was having an affair with.
A Russian lawyer takes his ex-girlfriend to court in a bid to have her return the cash he spent on a couple’s holiday in Crimea.
A woman may have to pay hundreds of thousands of pounds after falsely accusing her neighbour of molesting her pigs.
A 77-year-old erotic novel writer who died during a solo sex act is described as passing “in flagrante delicto” by a coroner.
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