Vital NHS funds, he said, were being wasted over advice on issues the service should not need.
"The world has moved toward self-service," he said, and that puts the emphasis on technology, and on information over advice.
(A few months later, the lawyer was asked to leave News International, where he had worked for 33 years, apparently after another disagreement over advice).
There are several major cases pending or planned involving former players or their families suing team doctors over advice or treatment that they consider detrimental.
Terra Firma, which owns EMI after buying it out in 2007, is also embroiled in a legal dispute with Citigroup over advice and financing the U.S. bank provided for the purchase.
Every single story, they claim, ran roughshod over advice from the Samaritans, MediaWise Trust and Ipso by not including information on support lines, while many articles ran the risk of romanticising or glorifying suicide.
Some supporters fretted over advice ignored and help rebuffed by an organization more likely to adopt ideas from the blather on its Web log than from people on the payroll.
Shortly after the police interviewed Mr. Melchert-Dinkel last year, he checked into a local emergency room, state records show, saying that he was dealing with an addiction to suicide Internet sites and feeling guilty over advice he had given to people to end their lives.
Former prime minister Julia Gillard was also cleared of any wrongdoing by the commission over advice she gave as a young lawyer in the 1990s to her then boyfriend, AWU official Bruce Wilson, regarding the setting up of what was later revealed to be union slush fund.
The club owed the money to the Glasgow law firm Levy & McRae over advice on how to deal with a Uefa charge relating to fans singing sectarian songs.
As well as covering mis-sold PPI, HSBC customer redress costs include such matters as disputes over advice given by its wealth management arm, and for mis-sold interest rate swaps.
