Solicitor sues after being accused of charging client while playing golf

Property tycoon Colin Sullivan, 69, claims his lawyer, Stewart Wiseman, demanded more than £4,000 for thirteen and a half hours work, despite being on the golf course. Mr Sullivan was so enraged at the bill that he plastered his Range Rover vehicle with stickers accusing his solicitor of ripping him off and parked it outside his offices in Central London. The court heard one of the notices read: “Stewart Wiseman took a full day off to play golf, plus a half day for personal reasons, yet charged me for 13 and a half-hour days.” But Mr Wiseman, who has been in practice for more than 40 years, has vehemently denied fraudulently overcharging his client and is now suing him for defamation over the claims made on the stickers. At a hearing in the High Court in London, lawyers for Mr Sullivan explained that the disputed charges related to a day in November 2009, when Mr Wiseman admits he was playing golf at the prestigious Dryham Park Country Club in Hertfordshire.