Hitesh Keshvala of London firm Ally Lindsay has risen to the challenge of claiming to be the country’s youngest higher rights advocate. ‘My date of birth is 1/6/87 and I qualified with higher rights on 15 November 2011, making me a higher rights advocate at 24 years and 167 days.’ He apologises for ‘looking a bit the worse for wear’ in the picture, which he says was taken after returning from a friend’s stag do in Spain. Ah, youth… Any more young ‘uns out there?
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