Romeo found himself in the dock this week as a group of lawyers joined the Shakespeare Schools Festival to perform The Trial of Romeo at Gray’s Inn.

The performance began with young actors performing Romeo and Juliet up to the crucial moment of Tybalt’s death, at which point fair Verona was transformed into a courtroom, with Romeo accused of murder.

He was questioned by lawyers played by distinguished criminal barristers Anthony Arlidge QC, John Kelsey-Fry QC, Ron Thwaites QC and Clare Montgomery QC.

Obiter wonders what kind of flowery prose the hothead romantic used to talk his way out of that one?