The ten silliest laws that face the chop

We all know the law is an ass (as Dickens wrote) but it takes the legal world's bigwigs to decide the top ten silliest laws.

The Law Commission has proposed sweeping away more than 800 old laws that are cluttering up the statute book, which, it says, is littered with dead law from the 1600s and earlier. This is "long after they have ceased to serve any useful purpose".