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Privilege 5th ed isbn PASS5th

Privilege 4th ed


ISBN13: 9780414057531
New Edition ISBN: PASS5th
Previous Edition ISBN: 9781908013118
Published: December 2019
Publisher: Sweet & Maxwell Ltd
Country of Publication: UK
Format: Hardback
Price: £247.00



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The 4th edition of Privilege

  • Explains the law of contentious and non-contentious privilege in all its aspects
  • Goes through the core principles of legal professional privilege, including its rationale and the nature of the righ
  • Looks at what constitutes privilege
  • Identifies situations where privilege occurs
  • Examines the boundaries of privilege
  • Covers the circumstances when privilege is deemed to be loss of privilege
  • Considers in detail ‘advice privilege’ and ‘litigation privilege’, covering the essential elements of both, the distinction between the two and matters specific to each such as the client-lawyer relationship, confidential communications and third party communications for ‘advice privilege’, and legal proceedings, expert witnesses, witness statements, and criminal proceedings for ‘litigation proceedings’
  • Assesses whether a documentary communication which was not made in privileged circumstances can subsequently be subject to legal professional privilege
  • Deals with the consequences where the subject matter of a privileged communication is one in which two or more persons can establish a joint or common interest
  • Addresses the general principles underlying the ‘crime-fraud exception’, how it applies in both civil and criminal proceedings and the grounds on which it can be invoked
  • Shows how a claim to privilege is made in civil litigation, when it can be challenged, the circumstances in which a court will exercise its right to inspect documents of which the claim to privilege is made and what happens when an order for production is made in respect of materials which are privileged in part only li>Takes into account the without prejudice privilege and how it differs from legal professional privilege
  • Analyses key judgments which have established the principles of privilege

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