This is most likely during Shelley’s undergraduate days, so she’ll be in her late teens and living at University, with unfettered access to alcohol and her fellow hormonal youth. If the course is the same shape as the one I didn’t finish (I switched to archaeology when I realised I’d never be able to cross-examine anyone who cried on the stand,) contract law probably means second year undergrad, so 18 or 19.

Note, however, that Shelley is studying in the UK, so it’s likely that her undergraduate degree will be a batchelor of laws (LLB), followed by a one year bar course and famously one case of the one year pupilage, rather than the three-year postgraduate programme of a US law school.

By the same token, under UK law, Shelley and all of her immediate peers are newly minted to full drinking age, which could explain a lot about both lads on this page.