confirmed they were happy with the billed amounts, and that "often substantially more work can be done than is formally recorded at the time [...] in relation to clients, and in particular high profile ones who are often out of the country and lead particularly busy lives, extensive work on complex issues is done at anti-social hours and under considerable pressure."[10]In October 2011, John Cleese accused Shackleton of wasting thousands of pounds of his money on private detectives to find out where he was living when his whereabouts were well known. Cleese stated, ‘It was an example of something that happened all the way through. You felt that the lawyers were quite deliberately spending as much of my money as they could. Why? Because they could.’[11]In March 2012, one of Shackleton's former clients filed a negligence claim against her for incorrect advice on a child support case. The former client states that due to this erroneous advice he lost out on more than £260,000. Shackleton charged over £95,000 in fees for the advice.[12
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