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.
The reader will at once observe the great dissimilarity in the two languages, not one word in the whole being common to both. In all their large councils, composed of both tribes, interpreters were as necessary between the parties as it was between the Indians and the United States officers.