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Gordon I had the privilege of being an Advocacy Student at a Seminar in London in 1971. The speaker and author of a great little handbook “The Technique of Persuasion” was the late great Sir David Napley. Forward thinking Solicitor later to be President of the Law Society! It was drummed into the attendees that you MUST – absolutely must – take the witness statements at the very first interview. Of course David gave the scenario of calling in the Secretary with her Shorthand Book there and then and there was an assumption that only a qualified Solicitor would undertake this important exercise. He wisely added that once typed up and perfected the statement should be sent to the Client / Witness with an extra copy to be countersigned by them. Not many years later I met and chatted to Sir David at a user Group for “Solace” one of the very first Solicitors Accounts packages which I ran on my CPM ( precursor to Windows and Apple OS) machines in back in 1979