Some countries in Asia, including Hong Kong, Singapore, India, Malaysia and the Philippines, have retained the traditional common law concept of legal professional privilege. (globalinvestigationsreview.com)
Sovereign immunity, an established common law concept, protects government entities and their employees from civil lawsuits. (abajournal.com)
who legally owns the property, which is often the person who paid for the asset) and a set of complicated common law concepts known as constructive trusts (where a legal owner can be deemed to actually hold part of an asset in trust for another). (mannlawyers.com)