Common Interest Privilege in UK Law

  • Combating money laundering and the future of banking secrecy laws in Malaysia
    • No. 17-2, May 2014
    • Journal of Money Laundering Control
    • 219-229
    Purpose: – The purpose of this paper is to analyze banking secrecy laws against the background of the Malaysian anti-money laundering laws. It has been argued that the anti-money laundering law mak...
    ... ... banking secrecy rule when compared to the common" law or other statutes.Banks can disclose customer\xE2" ... Bankingsecrecy is a customer privilege, whereas combating money laundering is critical ... a manner that is not prejudicial tothe interest of legitimate customers. This is a positive ... ...
  • ‘The Stuff of Which Political Debate is Made’: Roberts V Bass1
    • No. 31-1, March 2003
    • Federal Law Review
    ... ... the impact of the Lange decision on the common law defence of qualified privilege. In Ro ... moral duty or to protect the publisher's interest, and if the material was published to recipients ... ...
  • Noticeboard
    • No. 12-3, July 2008
    • International Journal of Evidence & Proof, The
    ... ... , although not exhaustive, only permits common law rules of evidence to be applied that are ... decision to prosecute; • if the public interest in the integrity of the legal process outweighs ... Bastarache J) Joint attorney–client privilege and corporate families—United States The facts ... ...
  • Noticeboard
    • No. 8-4, December 2004
    • International Journal of Evidence & Proof, The
    ... ... Court of Appeal is the first court in the common law world to have had occasion to consider the ... was not protected by legal professional privilege. Subsequently the same lip-reader appeared as a ... Public interest immunity—inadvertent disclosure—United ... ...
  • Private Information in Public Hands: Confidentiality, Court Disclosure and the Public Interest
    • No. 10-4, December 1979
    • Federal Law Review
    Individuals and organisations are frequently required to provide public agencies with information about their affairs which they would not wish disseminated to others. Income tax returns represent ...
    ... ... of a st~tutory secrecy provision an,d/or a claim to Cro'wn privilege. The court is thus required to resolve a conflict between competing ... Production of Copies of Income Tax Returns Governed by the Common Law Rule of Public Policy?" (1958) 32 A.L.J. 178; Carlson, "The ... ...
  • Freedom of Political Communication, the Constitution and the Common Law
    • No. 26-2, June 1998
    • Federal Law Review
    ... ... on the operation of the common law defence of qualified privilege. 35 The High Court, then, had a choice as to how to proceed. For ... 39 It was considered that the interest of the general public in information was not established merely by ... ...
  • Essential Practice Guidance
    • Contents
    • The Single Family Court: a Practitioner's Handbook - 2nd Edition
    • Gillian Geddes/Richard Budworth
    • 141-240
    ... ... , confirming that he or she has no interest in the case and understands the MF’s role and ... be issued with “toolkits” setting out common problems encountered when examining vulnerable ... ▪ Privilege. ▪ Confidentiality and privacy. ▪ How to ... ...
  • STATUTES
    • No. 16-2, April 1953
    • The Modern Law Review
    ... ... possible followed from the common law conception that the test of ... At common law. no privilege attached to newspaper reports of ... the statement was in the public interest or for the public benefit. It appears ... ...
  • The Self-Determination of Peoples in European Legal Practice
    • No. 3-1, March 1996
    • Maastricht Journal of European and Comparative Law
    ... ... Political Cooperation, or the Common Foreign and Security Policy of theEuropean Union) ... in com-mon, it was a common political interest: the common good against privilege. 9This ... ...
  • Exemptions under the Freedom of Information Act 1982
    • No. 14-1, March 1983
    • Federal Law Review
    ... ... The Public Interest. Some of the exemptions incorporate a ... or other persons may claim a privilege or an immunity to refuse to disclose ... years that this term, which is common in the United States, has been adopted ... ...
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