Client legal privilege and federal investigatory bodies
Subtitle: issues paper
By: Australian Law Reform Commission
Series: Issues paper / Australian Law Reform Commission -- 33; Issues paper (Australia. Law Reform Commission) -- no. 33
Publisher: Australian Law Reform Commission
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Sydney
Language: eng
Number of pages: 239
ISBN-13: 9780975821381
Subjects: Right of Privacy; Evidence (Law); Governmental investigations; Privileges and immunities; Confidential communications; Lawyers; Australia
Notes: "April 2007"

"On 29 November 2006, the Attorney-General of Australia asked the Australian Law Reform Commission (ALRC) to inquire into the application of legal professional privilege to the coercive information-gathering powers of Commonwealth bodies - such as the Australian Federal Police, the Australian Crime Commission, the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) and federal Royal Commissions ... The proliferation of bodies with coercive information-gathering powers presented a challenge to the common law doctrine of legal professional privilege."--P. 18.

Includes bibliographical references.

Also available in an electronic version on the Internet.