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Dealing with other practitioners: civilised warfare, not guerrilla warfare -- Introduction -- Different types of opponent - categories of opposition -- Your professional obligations -- Your duty to the client -- Strategies -- Correspondence -- Courtesy -- Brevity -- Shuttle diplomacy -- Managing difficult and hostile opponents -- The condescending, pedagogic practitioner -- The endless disclosure practitioner -- The obfuscating practitioner -- The offensive practitioner -- The threatening practitioner -- The sadistic practitioner -- The "indemnity costs" practitioner -- The "refer you to the Legal Services Commissioner" practitioner -- The "ethically challenged" practitioner -- Etiquette and undertakings -- Ethical requirements in communicating with the other side -- Case studies