Anonymous Assistant: Material Non-Disclosure
The saga continues… There is a rule in litigation which says that clients must entrust the retrieval of their documents to their most feckless office junior; provide him with no guidance as to which ones are relevant, but instruct him to throw everything into a dog-eared cardboard box and deliver them to us with absolutely no discernible way of identifying them. It is common to all forms of litigation, except, it seems, employment claims…… Two weeks after her request Amelia’s documents are sent by recorded …
The saga continues…
There is a rule in litigation which says that clients must entrust the retrieval of their documents to their most feckless office junior; provide him with no guidance as to which ones are relevant, but instruct him to throw everything into a dog-eared cardboard box and deliver them to us with absolutely no discernible way of identifying them. It is common to all forms of litigation, except, it seems, employment claims……
Two weeks after her request Amelia’s documents are sent by recorded delivery in neat pink files with indices and helpful little dividers in between. They even smell nice. Which is certainly not right.
“I should be the one complaining!” huffs The Boss when I point this out. “Their efficiency has cost us three days’ worth of work which I could have them charged for.”
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June 1, 2009
looking forward to the next one