Perspectives on Evidentiary Privileges

Perspectives on Evidentiary Privileges features 12 scholarly papers that examine emerging doctrinal and policy issues concerning evidential privileges in the following areas:-

• ‘Mr. Big’ undercover police operations;
• protection of journalistic source privilege;
• marital privilege;
• privilege for tax professionals;
• privilege issues surrounding police investigative techniques;
• case by case privilege;
• privilege for religious communications;
• Parliamentary records privilege; confidential informant privilege;
• privilege against self-incrimination;
• and researcher-participant privilege.

As the first collection of its kind published in Canada, Perspectives on Evidential Privileges aims to advance debate on critical yet understudied issues relating to these evidential privileges.