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<blockquote data-quote="SuZir" data-source="post: 623627" data-attributes="member: 14557"><p>I'm little baffled on how to take this: difficult child had mentioned something about lawyer to club's representative and he was told, he wouldn't want to 'lawyer up' because other party is not doing so and it could be considered hostile.</p><p></p><p>Yeah, I'm sure other party is not lawyering up, just bringing his dad, who just happens to be a lawyer specialised into criminal law and works as a prosecutor. More with drug related crimes to my understanding, but still. Only lawyer in our immediate family is my sister in law, who was a corporate lawyer before opting to become organic farmer instead, but while she is able to give us recommendations of lawyer in this type of case, it is far from her expertise. Though that what I know other boy's parents (and I do know some, he and difficult child did play together few years and there was lots of fund raising etc. for us parents), they are reasonable and smart folk. I don't really believe they would take offence for difficult child consulting a lawyer so I believe this comes solely from the team. In fact this dad was very helpful for us, when difficult child got caught from stealing, helped to talk down enraged parents and boys, was instrumental in getting everyone to agree that best way to deal with it was to go with 'restorative justice' route, which I believe was absolutely best for difficult child in every way and was even one of the people who recommended us a treatment program we put difficult child into and with which we have been very happy with.</p><p></p><p>I advised difficult child to call it BS and if it is a problem for them, he really doesn't want to sign with them anyway. Helps that this is not his favourite option of negotiations that are going on, he may even do that and not cave.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SuZir, post: 623627, member: 14557"] I'm little baffled on how to take this: difficult child had mentioned something about lawyer to club's representative and he was told, he wouldn't want to 'lawyer up' because other party is not doing so and it could be considered hostile. Yeah, I'm sure other party is not lawyering up, just bringing his dad, who just happens to be a lawyer specialised into criminal law and works as a prosecutor. More with drug related crimes to my understanding, but still. Only lawyer in our immediate family is my sister in law, who was a corporate lawyer before opting to become organic farmer instead, but while she is able to give us recommendations of lawyer in this type of case, it is far from her expertise. Though that what I know other boy's parents (and I do know some, he and difficult child did play together few years and there was lots of fund raising etc. for us parents), they are reasonable and smart folk. I don't really believe they would take offence for difficult child consulting a lawyer so I believe this comes solely from the team. In fact this dad was very helpful for us, when difficult child got caught from stealing, helped to talk down enraged parents and boys, was instrumental in getting everyone to agree that best way to deal with it was to go with 'restorative justice' route, which I believe was absolutely best for difficult child in every way and was even one of the people who recommended us a treatment program we put difficult child into and with which we have been very happy with. I advised difficult child to call it BS and if it is a problem for them, he really doesn't want to sign with them anyway. Helps that this is not his favourite option of negotiations that are going on, he may even do that and not cave. [/QUOTE]
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