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Sheikh your booty
Posted 18/03/2008 by The Daily Diary
For all those lawyers chasing princely new clients in the Middle East – and there’s certainly plenty of you – beware of the UK’s pervasive ‘know your client’ regulations… which don’t necessarily translate particularly well in that part of the world.
You see, even a sheikh that owns his own country and has half the world's oil reserves under his palace is still subject to the same humiliating client-registration process as Joe Average. This presents a problem for lawyers in the Middle East, who must be wary of angering their latest meal-ticket by asking for the gas bill to his 400-room palace – all just to prove he’s really the right chap and not, presumably, the sort of ‘fake sheikh’ employed by various UK tabloids.
All of which makes The Diary wonder whether Farrer & Co has chased up Her Majesty for that Bucks Palace leccy bill.
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