American legal TV shows are happy to bask in some of the nonsenses that the law happily throws up. But we Brits reckon we can top that. In celebration of the release of Boston Legal’s fourth season on DVD – and we’ve got a review coming up soon – we’re indebted to the help of Gemma Dunbar who has helped us come up with ten laws that just shouldn’t be true, but are.

We’d do a true or false thing on these, if they didn’t all happen to be true. They’ll certainly give Messrs Shatner and Spader something to muse over…

Law one It is illegal for a cab in the City of London to carry rabid dogs or corpses

Law two It is illegal to die in the Houses of Parliament