On Sunday 10 Oct 2004 09:33, Adrian Midgley wrote:
> I don't think anything about that depends on the disclaimer or its
> contents though.
I agree that a disclaimer can only ever be advisory. It can't by itself
lay a legal duty on someone.
The disclaimers on emails from legal firms usually say something like
"do not rely on the contents of this email, it does not necessarily
contain the legal opinion of this firm, wait until you get it in an
official letter from us".
There was a very good disclaimer used by a lawyer who gave helpful
advice to others on mailing lists: "this is not legal advice, no matter
how much it looks like it".
Repetition certainly dulls the palm. And email writers might bear
Polonius's other advice in mind:
"Give thy thoughts no tongue,
Nor any unproportioned thought his act.
Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar...
...Beware
Of entrance to a quarrel, but being in,
Bear't that the opposed may beware of thee.
Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice;
Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment...
...This above all: to thine ownself be true..."
This is not advice, no matter how much it looks like it. :-)
--
Michael Leuty
Nottingham, UK
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