Obiter will get into trouble with this competition, but here goes. The topic of City solicitors’ chargeable hours has kicked off a bit of a ‘Four Yorkshiremen’ debate in the pages of The Times. (‘Looxury! We had to get up before it got dark, crawl 12 miles to t’mill and pay t’owner to let us work there’, etc ad nauseam.)

One recalled recording 22 chargeable hours in a day. That was nothing, sniffed a veteran of the 1980s City. ‘I started work at 9.30am one day and did not stop until 6.30pm — not that day but the following day. During that period I had two 20-minute lunch breaks, making a total of 29 hours 50 minutes’ chargeable time.’

Can any Gazette reader beat that? Anonymities preserved, if necessary. 

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