A top lawyer for the Bank of England is set to finish what is believed to be the longest speech in British legal history, which lasted 119 days, a newspaper said.
Nicholas Stadlen is finally due to sit down after spending the past few months delivering his opening remarks from 125 files in the central bank's defence of an 850-million-pound (1.6 million dollar, 1.2 million euro) compensation claim by creditors to collapsed bank BCCI, the Guardian reported.
The lawyer's speech breaks a record set last year by his rival in the same case, Gordon Pollock, who spent 73 days setting out his client's case in London's Royal Courts of Justice, the daily said.
As the legal jargon rumbled on, a mountain of files has built up on the desks of the opposing legal teams so neither can see the other, it added.
The Guardian said the trial is due to resume on June 13 with the first two defence witnesses being called to testify.
