Response to HAMMOND SUDDARDS How do they prove debt?

It's a get-out clause Stephen. Anything to which the principle of lawyer-client priviledge can be applied can be tossed into the pot and theoretically exempted. It is supposed to be used when the information you are requesting relates directly to the case the lawyer is handling (and is most often used where the information you are requesting in some way undermines their client's position.) However, it is my [possibly mistaken] understanding that it does not cover everything the lawyer holds and that the lawyer will have to demonstrate that the release of such data would in some way undermine the legal premise of lawyer-client priviledge. Otherwise all the Lenders would need to do is engage a lawyer, and bingo they are free to withhold everything. I think that it's used too loosely by most lawyers and wouldn't take that as the end of the matter.

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