Only my client, and actually, only if I divulged enough information to break confidence.
Tom Send a noteboard - 29/06/2010 05:31:56 PM
If I gave my client's name or other information that would identify him or allow people to guess at his identity, I would be breaking confidence. Saying that "a client" said it is not a problem. The fact that the client doesn't care that I mention it to other people makes it even less of one. The fact that I don't touch family law makes it even less relevant.
For a communication to be privileged, it needs to be made in a setting where only the attorney and client are present, it needs to pertain to the relationship between the attorney and client (i.e., why I am representing him) and it doesn't apply if the client explicitly authorizes that it be communicated. In this case, the client said it in a large company of people, so the communication isn't even covered, technically. If it were, I don't handle family law and the client is not American and so I am not qualified to handle his divorce or marriage or similar matters anyway, so the statement would not apply to our attorney-client relationship.
For a communication to be privileged, it needs to be made in a setting where only the attorney and client are present, it needs to pertain to the relationship between the attorney and client (i.e., why I am representing him) and it doesn't apply if the client explicitly authorizes that it be communicated. In this case, the client said it in a large company of people, so the communication isn't even covered, technically. If it were, I don't handle family law and the client is not American and so I am not qualified to handle his divorce or marriage or similar matters anyway, so the statement would not apply to our attorney-client relationship.
Political correctness is the pettiest form of casuistry.
ἡ δὲ κἀκ τριῶν τρυπημάτων ἐργαζομένη ἐνεκάλει τῇ φύσει, δυσφορουμένη, ὅτι δὴ μὴ καὶ τοὺς τιτθοὺς αὐτῇ εὐρύτερον ἢ νῦν εἰσι τρυπώη, ὅπως καὶ ἄλλην ἐνταῦθα μίξιν ἐπιτεχνᾶσθαι δυνατὴ εἴη. – Procopius
Ummaka qinnassa nīk!
*MySmiley*
ἡ δὲ κἀκ τριῶν τρυπημάτων ἐργαζομένη ἐνεκάλει τῇ φύσει, δυσφορουμένη, ὅτι δὴ μὴ καὶ τοὺς τιτθοὺς αὐτῇ εὐρύτερον ἢ νῦν εἰσι τρυπώη, ὅπως καὶ ἄλλην ἐνταῦθα μίξιν ἐπιτεχνᾶσθαι δυνατὴ εἴη. – Procopius
Ummaka qinnassa nīk!
*MySmiley*
This message last edited by Tom on 29/06/2010 at 05:35:27 PM
Sanderson has finished the first draft of Towers of Midnight. *NM*
29/06/2010 01:48:03 AM
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Dammit.
29/06/2010 03:28:12 AM
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I am never going to be able to read that title in the same way now. *NM*
29/06/2010 07:52:46 AM
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Completely off topic:
29/06/2010 05:04:41 AM
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Only my client, and actually, only if I divulged enough information to break confidence.
29/06/2010 05:31:56 PM
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