http://etclaims.co.uk/2007/10/telephone-cmds/ tactics & precedents Tue, 22 May 2012 10:48:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.4 http://etclaims.co.uk/2007/10/telephone-cmds/comment-page-1/#comment-421 Tim Pitt-Payne Wed, 17 Oct 2007 18:00:52 +0000 http://etclaims.co.uk/?p=88#comment-421 If your client and/or instructing solicitor are a long way from your office then they may choose to phone in from their own location rather than joining you for the telephone hearing. This can be convenient and can save travel time, but it creates problems if you need to take instructions about a point in the middle of the hearing. One solution is to agree with your client that you will both make sure you have access to email during the telephone hearing: you then have a private channel of communication if you need it. If your client and/or instructing solicitor are a long way from your office then they may choose to phone in from their own location rather than joining you for the telephone hearing. This can be convenient and can save travel time, but it creates problems if you need to take instructions about a point in the middle of the hearing. One solution is to agree with your client that you will both make sure you have access to email during the telephone hearing: you then have a private channel of communication if you need it.

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