Religious confession privilege at common law
Subtitle: a historical analysis
By: By A. Keith Thompson
Series: Studies in religion, secular beliefs and human rights -- v. 9; Studies in religion, secular beliefs, and human rights -- v. 9.
Publisher: M. Nijhoff Publishers
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 395
ISBN-13: 9789004172326
Subjects: Confession (Law); Confession (Canon law); Liberty of conscience; Evidence (Canon law); Freedom of religion; Confidential communications; Evidence (Law)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [379]-388) and index.
Table of contents: title: Review of religious confession privilege in early evidence texts; title: Religious confession privilege in historical context; title: Religious confession and privilege in canon law; title: Religious confession privilege at common law from the seventeenth century to the twentieth century; title: Religious communications privilege at common law; title: Theories about the extinction of religious confession privilege; title: Religious confession at common law in Australia; title: Religious confession privilege at common law in the United Kingdom and Ireland; title: Religious confession privilege in the United States; title: Religious confession privilege in Canada and New Zealand; title: Religious confession privilege in South Africa; title: Policy : should there be a religious confession privilege?; title: Conclusion.