Part Forty: Not My Client

And on the tenth of June, at about four in the afternoon, Imogen Sarkissian telephoned me and told me I was not her client any more.

I had been.

Since the fifth of December.

Nineteen weeks, four meetings, a petition, a motion, an expert report and about two hundred emails.

And she said: “Roland, your guardianship terminated this morning.

Silas is nineteen.

He has capacity and he has standing and the beneficiary of that trust is now an adult who can instruct a lawyer himself.