And finally… gardening leave

The order to make the payment came after a judge labelled their claims as ‘speculative and weak’.

Ms Basia Lejonvarn offered to help her millionaire friends Peter and Lynn Burgess landscape their garden in Highgate, north London, providing ‘gratuitous’ advice and work on the project in 2013.

However, the three fell out after the couple blamed Ms Lejonvarn for problems which hindered the project and caused more money to be spent.

The two sued her and in 2017, won a Court of Appeal ruling that Ms Lejonvarn owed them a legal ‘duty of care,’ despite her having given her advice and work for nothing, The Daily Mail reports.

However, in 2018, the High Court dismissed all the couple’s claims after finding that their insistence that Ms Lejonvarn negligently project managed and designed the garden ‘lacked credibility and conviction’.

Consequently, Appeal Court judge Lord Justice Coulson has ruled that Mr and Mrs Burgess must pay legal costs at a ‘indemnity’ rate, estimated to be over £1m and could reach as much as £2m.