19th March, 2009 - Ten Things I Hate About My Job #5

The paper! The paper! The endless paper.

The Law Society of Scotland insists that we store files for a period after they are completed. Many files that I deal with have to be kept for at least five years, and often much longer than that. We have a storage facility where all the dead files live, a little mausoleum to the disputes and petty grievances of days gone by.

If we freed up all the storage units full of the dead files of lawyers, we would actually find that there is enough space for 1,000,000 Japanese tourists. Gordon Brown heed my call – burn the files – let the Japanese come and spend their Yen.