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"Dear QS, My name is Mrs. young and I want to divorce my husband. How much will you quote me for dealing with the whole case including all ancillary matters and recovery of any award please? He's a multi-millionaire, might even be a billionaire"

"O K we'll do that for £1m Mrs. Young"

"Great, here's my cheque"

"Dear Mrs. Young, Do you recall our first contact? Well we have now done 65 preliminary hearings and a 20 day trial...... Yes, I know we still haven't recovered anything, but he has done 6 months in the slammer and we have done 100,000 hours....What you want your money back....you've been advised it was a whole contract to be seen through to completion.....but now we're on less than £10 per hour, soon it will be less than the minimum wage. Yes, I know we agreed to see it through to enforcement of any judgment, but the judge doesn't seem to know where his money is. What's his name, David Crawford, now what crazy idea has he been putting into your head....negligence, breach of contract.....he's writing to us today...wants our files of papers by the end of the week....and why are you giving me your bank account details......want your £1 m, but we've spent it on our PII premiums.......suing us for £20 m?......but that exceeds our PII cover.....Law Society .....SRA.....SDT.......oh my God, we'll be ruined and our kids will have to come out of their posh schools and we'll have to live in rented accommodation and I'll have to work out how to use the tube again"


I think this idea may need a little refining.