1 Being in a position of a conflict of interest. 2  A person is in a position of conflict if: ' 3 A reasonable man looking at the relevant facts...would think that there was a real sensible possibility of conflict': Boardman v Phipps.
Sign Language: Not all the Plains people spoke the same language. To communicate with other tribes, they developed a sign language, a language of hand movements.Over time, the same signs were used all over the Plains area. Usually, each band had at least one sign talker.The talkers understood over 3000 different signs.ign Language: Not all the Plains people spoke the same language. To communicate with other tribes, they developed a sign language, a language of hand movements.
In the 1950s and â60s, a kuru epidemic swept through the South Fore, claiming the lives of more than 1,000 members of the tribe. Later it was established that the disease was transmitted by the tribeâs practice of ritualistic mortuary cannibalism. The word kuru means âshaking deathâ in the Fore language, and describes the characteristic symptoms of the disease.