Rushing to ensure everyone’s pirouette technique is correct, UQLS Presidential Candidate Lily Smith managed to spare five minutes with The Obiter to explain to us just how the culture of the Law Society can be revived through the power of dance.

No, it’s not a plot out of an 80s movie, like Footloose, or Flashdance. Although it sure sounds like it! It’s a modern approach to education that Smith has honed over decades in Russia’s best secret agent training academies/ballet schools.

‘See, the problem with the Law School is that the feet aren’t nimble enough. How you expect to ever be a lawyer if you can’t dance your way out of trouble?’ she barked, confusingly, in a thick Russian accent. Clouds of cigar smoke enveloped her for the rest of the interview.

As she stood on pointe while encouraging first-years to take up mooting, she shared with us her broad vision for the direction of the Society.

‘It’s simple. Much like McGonagall expressed with such poise and panache in the seminal classic Skyfall, the Law Ball is, first and foremost, a dance!’

As a first-year fell over his own feet, Smith approached with a thick coil of barbed wire rope, threatening to strike, before the young man rose to his feet and tap-danced perfectly for, we’re not kidding, like twenty-eight minutes.

A smile crossed her lips. ‘There is hope for you yet, Padawan.’

More to come.