When a copy of The Lawyer, hot off the press, thumps onto the desks at RoF Towers, the first page flicked to is invariably the Work Life Quiz. For here there will almost always be some partner providing too much information. Burbling on about their gold plated DB7, admitting that the person they'd least like to be stuck in a lift with is their mother and labouring under the impression that Johnny Depp would best play their balding, suited selves in a movie of their life.


So it was with surprise that this week's quizee - Tony Woodcock of Stephenson Harwood - proved to be a bit bashful. He happily confesses in the first three answers that he enjoyed teaching Italian female students as a teen, that he split the back of his trousers bending over in court and that he spies on his associates down the pub on a Friday. But it's a wall of silence from Woodcock when it comes to his education and work history. Information on both of which he "refuses to disclose".

What could he have to hide? Is he running from the mob? Is he hiding a law degree from Bolton Uni (loitering at the arse end of the Guardian's best unis for law list)? Does he have a superinjunction on his past? Where's John Hemming MP when you need him.....?




If you can shed any light on the mysterious past of Tony Woodcock, please send in your information (on the hush hush) to the usual address.