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Should the "opposiing" solicitor be talking to me?

  • 25-05-2012 10:51pm
    #1
    muffler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 46,550 ✭✭✭✭


    A few weeks ago I was served with a witness summons by the plaintiff's solicitor to appear at a sitting of the circuit court. The evening before the court case the defendant's solicitor phoned me and spent some time discussing the "issue" and during that call he even give the phone to the defendants son (defendant is elderly) to talk to me so as I could convey my recollections to him.

    At the start of the call he was suggesting that I might be able to help them and if I wasn't busy maybe I could attend the court. When I advised that I would be in attendance in any event due to being summoned by the plaintiff's solicitor he said that maybe he shouldn't be talking to me to which I told him I didn't mind as I couldn't help them out regardless of whether I was summonsed or not. All in all he spent 20 - 25 minutes talking to me.

    As it turned out the case was adjourned and now likely to be heard in July but my question is should that solicitor have made contact with me at all?


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  • #2
    mrjoneill
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 536 ✭✭✭mrjoneill


    No proprietorship of a witness. It’s your choice.


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