Continuing with the series on guidance for new entrants to the profession (and a useful reminder for the rest of us). This is ten pieces of advice from the lawyers of Twitter after I wrote a piece on the lack of sense in "aggressive correspondence".
I have chosen 10 from the series of tweets that...
Somebody I know attended an application in Leeds where the opposing solicitor had responded to the application notice by a letter asserting that the application was entirely devoid of merit, an abuse of process of the court, an outrageous waste of time etc, and finishing his letter with the sentence “If this application proceeds I shall personally drive down from Newcastle to oppose it and seek indemnity costs……”, to which the applicant’s solicitor had responded, “Dear X. Thank you for your letter. Drive carefully.”