Hallett was four hundred and eleven lever-arch files, six weeks to trial, and it ate everything.
They took the big room on the third floor and did not give it back. They put the chronology on the wall in six-foot strips of A3 and the eleven claimants on a whiteboard and by the end of the first week the cleaner had stopped coming in. Owen the pupil moved a camp bed into the corner as a joke and then, on the Thursday, actually slept in it.