There is a hilarious cartoon strip this morning (19th February) making the most of the David and Goliath aspect of the case of 83 year-old Ian Hamilton QC holding the banking giant, Royal Bank of Scotland, to account in the Oban Small Claims Court (reported below).

No surprises that the cartoon has fun taking a few well aimed digs at fat-cat bankers and lawyers.  Here are a few samples:

• Small but perfectly formed chalk-striped banker lounges in big chair behind executive desk, on the phone from Edinburgh saying: ‘He’s suing for £1,400… ‘ His colleague at the London end replies: ‘That’s hardly a decent lunch’.
• Then the London banker asks: ‘Is Oban offshore? What’s the exchange rate?’
• And then, in puzzlement, he asks another question: ‘What’s a small claim?’
• RBS phones the Faculty of Advocates to arrange representation – and the response is: ‘RBS? We’ll need cash up front’.
• Two bigwigs from Brodies, the high-end Edinburgh legal firm retained by RBS are gleefully saying to each other: ‘On top of the fee, we get a £5million bonus if we lose and £10million if we win’.