British barristers often share rooms and staff support although there are no partnerships, and those who share chambers frequently oppose each other in court. In America, this would raise a conflict of interest issue. In Great Britain, the client first contacts a solicitor, who then selects the barrister who will try the case. The selected barrister receives the case file from the solicitor no more than a day or two before trial. There is virtually no pretrial interviewing or other investigation. Under American jurisprudence, this would likely produce a client complaint of incompetent representation. The British courts are inclined to accept all relevant evidence regardless of how it was obtained, although a new statute gives the trial judge discretion to suppress evidence deemed to affect the proceedings adversely. No retrials occur following the reversal of conviction on appeal. Therefore, a successful criminal appellant goes free, except in cases of (1) a hung jury or (2) the development of new evidence after the verdict is returned.