👉 Okay, let’s tackle this wonderfully weird little mouthful! Now, you haven’t stumbled upon some sort of freakishly complicated legal precedent, I promise. When someone says "160 caseload-ie-yes, that was a whole
thing
, we'll get there.
What exactly is a 160 Caseload-ie (…I just made that up, honestly)? Basically, in the wonderfully bureaucratic world of law, and particularly within certain specialist areas like probate, personal injury, or sometimes even criminal appeals, you occasionally get assigned a caseload – which is just a fancy, slightly depressing way to say, "Hey, here's a whole bunch of stuff we need to deal with! 160, as the name clearly indicates. The 'caseload-ie' part... this is where it gets interesting and probably unnecessarily complicated. Instead of just saying they had 160 individual cases going through them (each needing its own careful little shred of paperwork and a potential lifetime of legal wrangling), a 160 caseload, was the combined total of all that stuff , bundled into one monstrous, beige-tinged reality. It meant the team were dealing with 160 of these things as if it was 1 unit, Think of it like this: you've got 160 individual Lego creations – each a tiny, specific thing, and then a senior clerk
