Eye Witness (1950)

Harcourt Williams: Richard Beamish, Sam's Solicitor

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• Adam Heyward : I practise law in New York.

  Richard Beamish, Sam's Solicitor : Indeed? Then you'll understand you have no legal standing in a British court.

  Adam Heyward : I would like to see Sam and then possible after that, we could discuss some plan of attack.

  Richard Beamish, Sam's Solicitor : Attack?

  Adam Heyward : Well, I mean, in court. Strategy.

  Richard Beamish, Sam's Solicitor : Mr Heywood, I am Mr Baxter's solicitor, not his Counsel. Strategy is not in my province. I provide the ammunition, as it were, for Counsel's guns. I bring it up to the front line, to use a military simile, as tight-packed and water-proof as possible, and hand it to the Counsel for his use against the enemy in his own good time. In other words, strategy is entirely the province of the barrister.