And finallys… the best of 2016

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:

  1. What a dick
  2. 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.

  3. Lord Turnbull risks the wrath of God
  4. 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.

  5. Disbarred lawyer named as world’s richest solicitor
  6. A disbarred lawyer who was jailed for corruption and attempting to bribe a judge has been named as the world’s richest solicitor.

  7. A stitch not time
  8. 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.

  9. Bogus lawyer seeks lawyer
  10. An alleged burglar who claimed to be a lawyer standing in his own garden was arrested in a Northern Ireland town.

  11. To the DVLA and beyond
  12. 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.

  13. Oh brother
  14. 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.

  15. Crimea river
  16. 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.

  17. Pigs will lie
  18. A woman may have to pay hundreds of thousands of pounds after falsely accusing her neighbour of molesting her pigs.

  19. In flagrante delicto
  20. A 77-year-old erotic novel writer who died during a solo sex act is described as passing “in flagrante delicto” by a coroner.

    Have we missed your favourite? Send a tweet to @IrishLegalNews and let us know. And remember…

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