As discussion turned to budgets, estimates and costs caps, there was considerable confusion as to whether or not the terms were interchangeable. Claimant solicitor Fraser Whitehead explained that he had sought the help of his 13-year-old son's Internet search skills and come up with one definition that brought the house down, at least among fellow claimant lawyers: 'Budgeting - a way to go broke methodically.' He later explained to Obiter that on telling his son that the budgeting in question was not dissimilar to the kind the latter had to undertake in relation to his pocket money, the teenager looked at him and said simply: 'Then it's never going to work, is it?'