Sentences with phrase «same legal privilege»

Third parties assisting lawyers in the lawyers» core business will be bound by the same secrecy duty and enjoy the same legal privilege.

Not exact matches

The government should have no say in who may or may not be married, but should honor all recipients of those sacraments with the same legal protections and privileges.

This case poses some very significant legal and theological problems: Are the churches claiming same kind of special privilege?

At the same time as the justices in Re A were briefly deliberating, seven justices (Lords Neuberger, Clarke and Reed were common to both constitutions) were addressing the subject of privilege in the context of legal advice (R (Prudential plc and anor) v Special Commissioner of Income Tax [2013] UKSC 1: legal advice privilege does not apply to advice on law given by accountants).

Law Society president Joe Egan said: «A new tier of solicitors, working in unregulated outfits, wouldn't have to have the same insurance, wouldn't pay into the solicitors compensation fund and wouldn't inevitably afford their clients legal professional privilege.

When the SFO subsequently commenced its own investigation, not only did it have access to Rolls - Royce's internal investigations and interviews (Rolls - Royce having made a limited waiver of its claims for legal professional privilege over them), but also Rolls - Royce deferred certain interviews until the SFO had completed its interviews of the same individuals.

Non-lawyers do not have the same legal duties and responsibilities as lawyers in some situations, nor do they benefit from the same rights and privileges (such as the ability to represent parties or classes of parties in certain legal proceedings, a far broader scope of privilege concerning legal advise provided, etc.).

115 (1) The issuance of a certificate of supplementary protection grants the certificate's holder and their legal representatives, during the certificate's term, the same rights, privileges and liberties that are granted by the patent set out in the certificate, but only with respect to the making, constructing, using and selling of any drug that contains the medicinal ingredient, or combination of medicinal ingredients, set out in the certificate, by itself or in addition to any other medicinal ingredient.

The items identified as the material likely to be relevant evidence were precisely the same as those which had been identified in the application for the warrant under s 9, with the additional words that «which does not include material or information that is or consists of items subject to legal privilege or excluded material or information».

He accepted that the description of the material sought was essentially the same as that sought in the earlier warrants, except for the words excluding from the search documents which attracted legal privilege or excluded material.

[21] Furthermore, the fact that the plaintiffs retained the same legal counsel to act for them in regard to the wills variation action and the administration of the estate does not amount to a waiver of solicitor - client privilege.

The expert legal team at Lorenzo & Lorenzo believes that motorcyclists have the same rights and privileges as any other driver.

Thus registered partners will be able to adopt children which their same - sex partner has adopted before so that both partners are sharing joint legal parenthood, what so far has been a privilege exclusively for married couples of opposite gender.

In the case of a dispute the Commission will follow the «sealed envelope procedure», which is recognised by the Court of Justice as a means of avoiding the risks of legal professional privilege being breached, while at the same time enabling the Commission to retain control over documents relevant to its investigation and avoiding the risk that the documents will be destroyed or disappear.

The same applies to individuals and entities that can not be compelled to provide documents protected by the professional legal privilege.

Where there is a joint retainer, or where the same solicitors act for two clients in related matters in which they have a common interest, neither client can claim legal professional privilege against the other in relation to documents which come into existence, or communications which pass between them and the solicitors, within the scope of the joint retainer or matter of common interest concerned.

«It is a privilege to be able to help yet another student pursue his legal studies while at the same time fostering diversity in the legal profession,» said Douglas New, co-chairman of Fasken's diversity and inclusiveness committee.

While often confused as being one and the same, confidentiality and privilege are actually two separate concepts within the legal profession.