The part-time role is being considered after a move to cut costs across the Home Department identified the retainers were "rarely utilised".

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Whatever comes of Mr Fitzgerald's investigation, it is an excuse for a clean-out of some of the more established retainers, who have underperformed.

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He said all the retainers had full-time employment elsewhere and only nine employees were affected as three staff who left since the review started had not been replaced.

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She happened to mention that some attorneys accept payment of retainers by credit card to represent the client in a bankruptcy which will discharge that very credit card debt.

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Retainers were calculated by assuming that these individuals attended all board and committee meetings, and we did not include compensation paid in stock or the value of any stock options granted.

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As early as 1328, Parliament acted to limit armed travel, with the notable exception that members of the nobility were allowed to travel with armed retainers, a legal recognition of the privileges of aristocratic birth.

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Similarly, a third of all the female candidates, mostly retainers of powerful feudal families or party-political activists, were elected unopposed and a third of the seats remained uncontested, highlighting the continued dominant influence of tribal and semi-feudal conservative traditions.

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