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13:58 Why did you pull your punches?

I once acted for one of the defendants to a Fam. Prov. claim by the ex-mistress of the deceased, known in our office as Miss Fifi La Strappe. The deceased was a prominent (and very wealthy) public figure. The claimant's solicitors wrote to all the defendants' solicitors pointing out the potential for "tabloid publicity" if it went to trial and bring us to settle.

One of the members of the deceased's family sent her a copy of that letter endorsed with the words of the Duke of Wellington to an earlier blackmailer:

PUBLISH AND BE DAMNED!

and the claim was dropped!

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