If you can remember your days at law school, you’ll recall students take Halloween very seriously: think lecture room pranks and costume parties.
Once you get your diploma and start working up the career ladder with the help of s1jobs, you might think you’d left the world of ghouls and ghosts behind.
That is unless, as a property solicitor, you sell a house that turns out to be haunted. Or one of your clients insists you make possession by an evil spirit the main defence for their actions.
Thanks to such true life cases, the supernatural can sometimes make legal work feel beyond the pale.
In the US of A Halloween is a particularly busy time for lawyers, thanks to a series of laws, both modern and arcane, that dictate what behaviours are permitted.
For instance, in Hollywood silly string is banned after noon on Halloween because the authorities are fed up having to scrape the stuff off pavements.
In parts of Georgia, meanwhile, children aren’t allowed to wear masks.
Corsets are forbidden for women in Merryville, Missouri, so it’s OK to for the blokes to go to their local dressed as Morticia but not the girls.
In some states trick-or-treating is banned on Sundays and in Alabama you could be fined if you try to dress up as a priest.
The Middle Eastern country of Jordan has taken this bah-humbug attitude one step further by simply banning Halloween altogether.
Here in Scotland, where the Fright Festival gets bigger every year, there are no such regulations to put a dampener on the ghoulish fun – and make legal professionals’ lives hell.
That said, the police do have powers to stop any activities that could be considered anti-social behaviour – which in court probably amounts to trick-or-treating with menace.
Where you could be kept especially busy is in consumer law, whose ethos dictates flashing fans should in fact flash and light-up pumpkin lanterns glow and not go out with a bang.
Most of these novelties are cheap to buy and so customers don’t always complain if they don’t work, but retailers can pursue suppliers – through legal assistance – if they’ve bought a consignment of terror treats that are more flop than fright.
If this year you’d prefer not to spend the witching hours being terrified by such thoughts, why not look on the brighter side of life with all the top Legal vacancies from s1jobs?