On Thursday 01 December 2011 21:56:48 Vic wrote:
> My personal experience - which lacks statistical significance, naturally -
> is that it isn't so much the *rank* of a person that matters so much as
> the need to abide by assorted rules and procedures. Those of us of a lower
> rank tend to find these things out the hard way...
Believe me that three years in the High Court not only taught me the procedure 
rules, I learnt how to use them.  Everyone in the courtroom knew the relevant 
parts of the Civil Procedure rules and followed the Civil Procedure Rules.  
We (the LIPs) knew quite lot more than the judges about what was the 
procedure for an LIP, nd asked us!
But on that occasion ( or rather, More accurately, those occasions) it was 
certainly a matter of rank.
> > They may call your bluff.  So don't bluff.
>
> Royal Mail tried to call my bluff. I wasn't bluffing :-) They sent me an
> inch of A4 with all sorts of counter-claims to try to scare me off. 
That is a legal habit based on when clerks and solicitors were paid by the 
word.
> That 
> failed; cashing their cheque was one of the most satisfying moments I've
> ever had :-)
:-))
Lisi
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