Checklist for Clients

CHECKLIST FOR CLIENTS SEEKING ADVICE FROM PCaW 

Whether you phone or email our Advice Line, these are the issues we will need to 
discuss with you before we can give you any practical and sensible legal advice. 
   

• The risk

  1. Who is at risk? 
  2. Do they know they are at risk? 
  3. How are they at risk? 
  4. Is the risk imminent? 
  5. How serious is the risk? 
  
  

• Supporting information

  6. How do you know about it? 
  7. When were you first concerned about it? 
  8. If a while ago, what is making you want to raise it now?  
  9. Are others concerned? 
  10. If so, will they support you? 
  11. Is there anything else we ought to know? 
  
  

• If the concern has not been raised

  12. If you have not raised the concern yet, why not? 
  13. Is there someone senior in the organisation you trust? 
  14. Does it have a whistleblowing policy? 
  15. Where internally and externally do you think you could raise the concern? 
  16. What do you think should be done to address the concern? 
  
  

• If the concern has been raised already  

  17. If you have raised the concern, who with? 
  18. Did you do this openly, in confidence, or anonymously? 
  19. What was the response? 
  20. What concerns you about the response? 
  21. Is there a whistleblowing policy?  
  22. Where internally and externally do you think you could raise the concern? 
  23. What do you think should be done to address the concern? 
  
  

• And what about you…

  24. How long have you worked there? 
  25. Do you like it? 
  26. Do you want to stay there? 
  27. If not, what do you want to do? 
  
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