It has been a long, frantic week, preparing for a trial. Naturally, the trial was adjourned at the very last minute for lack of free court/Judge/time. Not necessarily a bad thing, as it gives us some time to convince the client that she really, really, really doesn’t want her day in court. She is currently certain that, if only the Judge hears her, the Court will not only award many thousands in aggravated and exemplary damages, but quite probably demand that the local authority chief executive is imprisoned.
None of this is remotely likely, and the client has been repeatedly told so, but she has been obsessed with her case for so long that I don’t think it has sunk in at all. Even assuming that we can get the current settlement offer improved a bit, it is going to be a nightmare getting the client to agree to it, but she will have to. Counsel concurred with our view, so there won’t be funding to continue. So, although we are closing to pulling off a definite good result with a massive improvement in the client’s position from when she came to us, she will not be at all happy and will probably complain.
It has all left me tired and rather dispirited, perfect for the long slog into the shortening autumn days.
Hi NL,
In my former existence , I would come across people such as your client on a daily basis and , in my own personal furstration at the imnpossible demands they would attempt to levvy on me , I would label them Emotional Vampires, basically because they manage to extract the very essence of physical and mental well bieng from everyone they encounter, leaving a trail the exhausted, the devastated, the overwhelmingly knackered and the deeply worried in their wake, whilst they carry on as if nothing has happened .
You have my absolute sympathies.