A tribunal of the United Kingdom’s Solicitors’ Regulation Authority this week struck off a solicitor in York for charging an average £750 (€1,043) per hour for work in administration of a client’s will.

According to a report in the Daily Telegraph, the learned friend even submitted a bill for the time it took him to attend his client's funeral.

All of which makes our impoverished banking inquiry lawyers, some of whom make do witha paltry €264 an hour, or senior counsel of the HSE, who can sometimes get up to €500 per hour, seem like bargains by comparison.