And finallys… the best of 2016

An Australian man’s five-year battle to use a crude drawing of a penis as his signature inspired him to enrol at law school.

A man who claims to be the Archangel Michael told the Court of Session not to allow independence campaigners to be evicted from the grounds of the Scottish Parliament.

A disbarred lawyer who was jailed for corruption and attempting to bribe a judge has been named as the world’s richest solicitor.

A woman who claimed she was on her way to a wool shop when she tailed and attacked a fellow driver has been told she must prove her knitting prowess by producing a “not meagre amount” of “multiple knitted items” to be sold to a charity shop.

An alleged burglar who claimed to be a lawyer standing in his own garden was arrested in a Northern Ireland town.

A 27-year-old man who changed his name to Buzz Lightyear to raise money for charity has won a year-long struggle to have a UK driving license issued in his acquired name.

A married man admitted telling his brother to supply a DNA sample on his behalf in a bid to avoid making child maintenance payments to the woman he was having an affair with.

A Russian lawyer takes his ex-girlfriend to court in a bid to have her return the cash he spent on a couple’s holiday in Crimea.

A woman may have to pay hundreds of thousands of pounds after falsely accusing her neighbour of molesting her pigs.

A 77-year-old erotic novel writer who died during a solo sex act is described as passing “in flagrante delicto” by a coroner.

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