and some civil law jurisdictions, legal professional privilege protects all communications between a professional legal adviser (a solicitor, barrister...
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Australia, legal professional privilege (also referred to as client legal privilege) is a rule of law protecting communications between legal practitioners...
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In England and Wales, the principle of legal professional privilege has long been recognised by the common law. It is seen as a fundamental principle of...
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Attorney–client privilege or lawyer–client privilege is the common law doctrine of legal professional privilege in the United States. Attorney–client privilege is...
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States Legal professional privilege: Legal professional privilege (Common Law) Legal professional privilege (Australia) Legal professional privilege (England...
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Buried Bodies Case (category Legal professional privilege)
attorney-client privilege. "Privileged" information includes communications where a client seeks legal advice or services. Attorney-client privilege is not an...
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known privilege is the solicitor–client privilege, referred to as the attorney–client privilege in the United States and as the legal professional privilege...
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private privilege: the privilege against self-incrimination; legal professional privilege (or litigation privilege or attorney-client privilege); and marital...
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Duty of confidentiality (category Legal ethics)
authorized by the client. Confidentiality is a prerequisite for legal professional privilege to hold. The lawyer-client relationship has historically been...
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decision of the High Court of Australia. At issue was a claim of legal professional privilege by the oil and gas conglomerate Esso, in respect of over 500...
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send the ATO documents by using over fifteen thousand claims of legal professional privilege, claims which the Federal Court of Australia later determined...
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British Post Office scandal (category Abuse of the legal system)
crucial lines of investigation for the Inquiry POL has waived legal professional privilege." The Post Office published its response to the request on 15...
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required law firms to report on client activities would breach Legal professional privilege requirements. European Commission - Evaluation of Administrative...
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China Medical Technologies (category Legal professional privilege)
documents relating to its investigation as to which Paul Weiss claimed privilege. In September 2015, US District Judge Ronnie Abrams of the US District...
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The joint defense privilege, or common-interest rule, is an extension of attorney–client privilege. Under "common interest" or "joint defense" doctrine...
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Ontario (Public Safety and Security) v. Criminal Lawyers' Association (category Legal professional privilege)
the constitutionality of section 23, i.e., ruled that solicitor-client privilege override the public interest. Although the case dealt with civil rights...
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only in the context of legal advice obtained from a professional adviser. A statement of the law on priest–penitent privilege is contained in the nineteenth...
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reserved legal activities and the Claims Management Services Regulator as an approved regulator (s. 161). The Act extends legal professional privilege to authorised...
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Solosky v R (category Legal professional privilege)
Though privilege has its origins as an evidentiary rule to protect parties in a litigation, it has become available to all clients seeking legal advice...
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Natural Resources Corp Ltd [2018] EWCA Civ 2006 – on the scope of legal professional privilege. Vodafone Ltd v Office of Communications [2020] EWCA Civ 183...
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French laboratory Labour Party Pakistan Latvia's First Party Legal professional privilege Legitimate peripheral participation, how newcomers become old-timers...
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Physician–patient privilege is a legal concept, related to medical confidentiality, that protects communications between a patient and their doctor from...
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received by certain professionals in privileged circumstances or where the information is subject to legal professional privilege. Others that are subject...
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Descôteaux v Mierzwinski (category Legal professional privilege)
Canada decision on solicitor-client privilege. The court reaffirmed the opinion in R. v. Solosky that privilege was a substantive right that even existed...
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Lionel Murphy (section Legal career)
the privilege will not be imputed to a legislature unless the intent is conveyed in unmistakable language. Legal professional privilege: The privilege is...
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White privilege, or white skin privilege, is the societal privilege that benefits white people over non-white people in some societies, particularly if...
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Murray Gleeson (section Legal career)
In Egan v Chadwick, this power was found to be not limited by legal professional privilege. In May 1998, Gleeson was appointed Chief Justice of the High...
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privilege or a right. Studies have evaluated its effect on recidivism. In person visitation is often used by attorneys to protect legal professional privilege...
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not affect any claims, rights or entitlements on the ground of legal professional privilege. Under section 3 of the Treason Act 1939 a person is guilty of...
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(November/December) Akram b. Hj. Shair Mohamed, "The Scope of Legal Professional Privilege under section 127 of the Evidence Act 1950" [1989] 2 Malaysian...
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