What a bunch of old rockers Gazette readers turned out to be. Obiter’s plea for songs to accompany Gazette news stories evidently had a few of you thumbing through your vinyl collections.

The submissions were… evocative. Surprisingly, no one suggested Jimmy Cliff’s Sitting Here in Limbo or the Pretenders’ Back on the Chain Gang. But we had at least two shouts for I Fought the Law and the Law Won - an honourable mention to Adrian Brodkin of Adrian & Co in Kentish Town, London, for recalling that it was released both by the Bobby Fuller Four and the Clash. ‘In the interests of justice however, I have soldiered on and "je ne regrette rien" (unlike of course many of those clients...).’

John Wardle of Newcastle City Council was a bit more lateral in proposing Roy Orbison’s Only the Lonely for members of HSBC’s conveyancing panel. Bob Miller of Fentons showed catholic musical tastes with A Legal Matter by the Who, Suicide is Painless by Johnny Mandel and Mike Altman (cf Nicklinson v MoJ), Breaking the Law by Judas Priest and D.I.V.O.R.C.E. by Tammy Wynette.

He also observes that The More you Ignore me the Closer I Get by Morrissey contains the line ‘Beware! I bear more grudges than lonely High Court judges’. Also from Fentons, Sam Firth, litigation executive, comes closer to the competition brief. For those litigators with the misfortune to deal with Portal claims (‘Fraud fears over RTA portal fee cap’, 29 March 2012), the answer is clear: increase your workload. Natalie Cole clearly foresaw this, hence her peroration to Issue Like Crazy.

‘Call for judicial diversity targets’ (same issue) will almost inevitably be met with an ill-thought-out half-way house, pleasing to absolutely nobody. This is a circumstance foreseen by the Happy Mondays when they wrote Judge Fudge. A bottle of Obiter’s finest is on its way to Fentons.

And Obiter’s colleague who suggested the Village People reform to sing ‘mySRA’ is disqualified for giving him the most annoying earworm of the week.