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The department whose individuals you can’t be bothered naming to which you forward awkward queries you can't be bothered reading for yourself, let along taking the time to understand. You may never how much a lawyer resents that to-all email addressed: “Hi, | The department whose individuals you can’t be bothered naming to which you forward awkward queries you can't be bothered reading for yourself, let along taking the time to understand. You may never how much a lawyer resents that to-all email addressed: “Hi, [[Legal]]”<ref>There is something worse: faux joviality, which conveys as finely honed sarcasm, in the phrase “Hi, [[Legal Eagles]]!!!”</ref>. | ||
====Help, help, help, help, help me Legal ==== | ====Help, help, help, help, help me Legal ==== | ||
The frequently heard, and usually false, refrain “I cannot opine on that, because it’s a question of law” drops like a scented jewel fro the lips of that kind dreary colleague who can’t be bothered to — or is too ''scared'' to — make a judgement of {{sex|her}} own because, well, ''no-one likes making decisions in a modern multinational''. No good comes from taking a view. | The frequently heard, and usually false, refrain “I cannot opine on that, because it’s a question of law” drops like a scented jewel fro the lips of that kind dreary colleague who can’t be bothered to — or is too ''scared'' to — make a judgement of {{sex|her}} own because, well, ''no-one likes making decisions in a modern multinational''. No individual good comes from taking a view, however much collective good may follow. [[As any fule kno]], Individual good comes by taking ''[[taking credit|credit]]'', not taking a [[taking a view|view]]''. | ||
But, dear colleague, however inconvenient it may be to the outlook for your posterior, not all legal questions are beyond your grasp. Indeed, by presumption of law, ''none'' of them are: you know their answers comprehensively, however paltry your legal education. Ignorance is no defence. | But, dear colleague, however inconvenient it may be to the outlook for your posterior, not all legal questions are beyond your grasp. Indeed, by presumption of law, ''none'' of them are: you know their answers comprehensively, however paltry your legal education. Ignorance is no defence. | ||
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Refusing to answer any legal question however basic doesn’t save you from a forensic trap so much as it shrouds you in a self-inflicted no-man’s land of purblind ambiguity. For — and this is a matter of logic, not law — you either have a contract or you don’t: each status implies its own set of risks and rewards, but there is no purgatorial state between them. It’s like being pregnant. There is no third way. You have to hitch your wagon to one train or the other. | Refusing to answer any legal question however basic doesn’t save you from a forensic trap so much as it shrouds you in a self-inflicted no-man’s land of purblind ambiguity. For — and this is a matter of logic, not law — you either have a contract or you don’t: each status implies its own set of risks and rewards, but there is no purgatorial state between them. It’s like being pregnant. There is no third way. You have to hitch your wagon to one train or the other. | ||
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