History is certainly not bunk as far as traditionalist Obiter is concerned.

So we offer our apologies to Peter Williamson for muddling our dates when we wrote last week that he was sitting Law Society president when his daughter Catherine was admitted in 2005.

In fact he was by then past-president: and he had still further happy duties to perform, presiding in that same capacity at an admission ceremony in 2008 when his son Andrew was admitted to the roll.

So it seems (see letters, p11) that just two sitting presidents have admitted offspring to the fold – the incumbent Linda Lee and Sir John Palmer, more than 30 years ago – though once again we stand to be corrected.