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Thanks George. I'm sure in the 1950s, when everything was typed out, correspondence was by letter, clients had to come in and see you to get anything done and time moved at a snail's pace, the practice of law was a gentleman's pursuit, the SRA was simply a glint in the eye of some official on the eastern side of the iron curtain, legal time limits were rigid.

Try working in 2014 when clients want massive transactions completing in two days, documentation on litigation cases runs to millions of pages, you are contactable 24/7 and are expected to be, a judiciary so out of touch sometimes I think they were called in 1954 and teams of solicitors handling hundreds of files at once just to make money. Faced with this, I think a couple of days grace and agreement between parties about dates when the court isn't troubled in the slightest isn't too much to ask!