At last, after months of searching for a US lawyer who was about to relocate across the Pond in protest at Alistair Darling’s cack-handed assault on the non-dom community, it appeared that Legal Week’s news team had at last located one such individual.

No, not from the Canary Wharf, despite the steady stream of grumbling that’s been emerging from Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom, but from a senior finance lawyer who had decided that enough was enough, sources said.