Sentences with phrase «conducted by defence lawyers»

Courts frown on «fishing expeditions» conducted by defence lawyers seeking clearly irrelevant information.

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Our teams of specialist criminal defence lawyers represent corporate and individual clients throughout regulatory and criminal investigations conducted by The Financial Services Authority (FSA) enforcement division.

In addition, Defence lawyer Joseph Neuberger obtained occurrence reports of prior calls to police that established a pattern of aggressive conduct by the complainant — her husband.

The object and meaning of the rule is this: that as, by reason of the complexity and difficulty of our law, litigation can only be properly conducted by professional men, it is absolutely necessary that a man, in order to prosecute his rights or to defend himself from an improper claim, should have recourse to the assistance of professional lawyers,... to use a vulgar phrase, that he should be able to make a clean breast of it to the gentleman whom he consults with a view to the prosecution of his claim, or the substantiating of his defence... that he should be able to place unrestricted and unbounded confidence in the professional agent, and that the communications he so makes to him should be kept secret, unless with his consent (for it is his privilege, and not the privilege of the confidential agent), that he should be enabled properly to conduct his litigation.