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Legal professional privilege : law and theory /
In the Commonwealth, the principle of legal professional privilege has been treated as almost sacrosanct and in consequence, derogations from it have been rare. The traditional view is that, despite resulting unfairness, the rule must be absolute in order to achieve its stated goals. This view is ch...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford ; Portland, Or. :
Hart Pub.,
2000.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | In the Commonwealth, the principle of legal professional privilege has been treated as almost sacrosanct and in consequence, derogations from it have been rare. The traditional view is that, despite resulting unfairness, the rule must be absolute in order to achieve its stated goals. This view is challenged here through an examination of the structure of and exceptions to the privilege. Auburn argues that the claims made of the rule in the past have been overstated and that the privilege is more robust than widely assumed. Being dependent on patterns of client behaviour, it can accommodate chan. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xxxviii, 269 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781847313119 1847313116 9781472558930 1472558936 9781841131016 1841131016 |