James Morton’s column, in which he recalled his time as a student at the College of Law in Lancaster Gate, brought back a few memories for David Miller, consultant at Kidd Rapinet in London, who was one of Morton’s contemporaries at the college.

Miller writes: ‘As regards the lecturers, I recall one in particular with a droning sonorous baritone voice continuously promoting his book… I recall particularly his lecture on company prospectuses on Christmas Eve in a baking hot tiny classroom where half the class was falling asleep.’

And of a certain conveyancing lecturer, he adds: ‘On one occasion he asked me a particularly complicated question, but as he addressed me as Mitchell I refused to answer.’

Miller adds that, having qualified in 1961, he still practises as a full-time consultant because ‘there is not much else to do’.

Read the Morton column.