Bugger me
February 9, 2008 by Ruthie
Ruthie is somewhat bemused at the shock and outrage that seems to have broken out at the notion that lawyer’s conversations with their clients are being bugged by the police and security services. Ruthie has never known that her conversations were bugged, in the same way that she doesn’t know that the Earth orbits the Sun; however strong circumstantial evidence has always suggested that the practice exists.
Write the crucial stuff on a piece of paper; talk rubbish. Your client will understand completely. The technique also works well if you think your emails are being snooped on. Don’t stop writing, simply spread disinformation. Then check out your suspicions of snooping by behaving in a contrary manner to the way that the information you have provided would suggest and see if you get any reaction.
Good grief, don’t you people have degrees?
[...] And… we have the controversy over the bugging of an MP when he was talking to a prisoner in prison. It seems that the authorities have also been bugging lawyers talking to their clients in prison before trial. Ruthie’s Law has comment and a solution. [...]
“Talk rubbish” ?
It might come naturally to you, but I would certainly struggle with that.
What if your client thinks you are insane if you start talking rubbish while showing him/her a piece of a paper with different information? It would be interesting to see.
Bugging lawyers’ conversations? What has the world come to. I’d be interested to know if my conversations at work get bugged - I think the buggers (blink) would be in for a shock, I can’t help but wax poetically about Coronation Street to all and sundry.
Now yer talkin’…