sentences:  Commissioner Nigel Fyfe approved the payment describing Karam's "unique circumstances", and said his legal assistance to Bain's defence was "exceptional" and the "equivalent to a non-qualified legal executive..."
  
  While supporting Bain, Karam spent his "considerable fortune" on the case.He'd become wealthy in various business ventures including hamburger bars and country pubs and the country's first major independent vending machine company.He had more than 20 investment properties, a launch and racehorses and lived on a 10-acre property in Clevedon.