Casebook - Men In Black

IT WAS FIVE o'clock on a Friday afternoon in mid summer. There is just time to tidy the desk and to think of taking Linford our border collie to the pub for his Saturday packet of crisps and my pint of Exmoor - after all I have to do something while he is eating them. Lost in these pleasant thoughts I failed to notice Ian one of my audit partners standing in the doorway. He looked a bit like the First Player in Hamlet 'all his visage wann'd ... distraction in's aspect …' you know the kind of thing. On reflection perhaps audit partners always look like that these days.

'I think I have a problem' he said. 'There are two chaps from Special Compliance Office in reception and they want to take away some of our files.' Ian...