Re: Attorney-Client Privilege - World Wide

From: Ronald Huttner (rshutt@netspace.net.au)
Date: Fri Mar 03 2006 - 16:23:26 PST


Scott,
Just a very quick suggestion. What is referred to in the USA as
"attorney-client privilege" is known in many other countries
(Australia, New Zealand, UK etc) as "legal professional privilege". A
very quick search on Google brought up some 118,000 items.
Cheers

Ron Huttner LL.B (Hons)
(Retired) Barrister, Solicitor, Law Lecturer and Legal Researcher
Melbourne
Australia

On 04/03/2006, at 9:39 AM, Scott Wales wrote:

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> Good Afternoon:
>
> Can anyone recommend a treatise that would give me attorney-client
> privilege information for European and Asian Countries? I
> understand their concept of the issue is different and I have
> located some articles, but am hoping maybe someone has dealt with
> this in a consolidated format. Thanks in advance. Have a great
> weekend.
>
>
> Scott Wales
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