Clerks' knees-up

This is a big week in the Bar's social calendar. On Wednesday the Institute of Barristers' Clerks holds its annual knees-up at the Institute of Directors. The Lord Chief Justice, Lord Bingham, the Solicitor General, Lord Falconer, the Attorney General, John Morris QC, and Bar Council chairman Heather Hallett QC will all be there, fresh from Monday's Bar Council garden party at the Inner Temple.