Deidre Dare is back for her day in court and demanding £3.5million from Allen & Overy, claiming her boss's sexual obsession led to her dismissal.

Dare's fighting fund has clearly worked - she filed preliminary papers at the Stratford Employment Tribunal this week. And they read more like an extract from her "novel" than anything else. She claims that her boss drunkenly fumbled with her at a party, subsequently became "sexually obsessed" with her and made her working life impossible.

She also claims that a "potential client" - i.e. her mate down the pub - thought the uproar over her book was an over-reaction given the behaviour of other A&O staff. According to Dare, the rest of the office spent its time "in whorehouses and throwing up in bars". If the HR department is inundated with requests for sabbatical in Moscow it now knows why.

An A&O lawyer yesterday, apparently

A spokesman for A&O said, "seriously? Given that she's got a book out I'm not at all surprised by anything she says".

But as always, the final word goes to Dare herself, through the medium of poetry:

Sometimes I feel like a goddess
Trying to pour all of the oceans and the seas
Into a funnel.

Who hasn't?