Displacement of legal professional privilege: facilitation of crime or fraud exception

Where legal professional privilege attaches to communication between legal adviser and a client, the client is entitled to object to any third party seeing the communication for any purpose unless, (i) the client has agreed of waived his right, II) the advice is sought and given for a nefarious purp...

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Main Authors: Shair Mohamad, Mohd Akram, Ramlee Saad, Zulfakar
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: The Malaysian Current Law Journal Sdn Bhd 2015
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spelling iium-485392017-11-27T03:17:22Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/48539/ Displacement of legal professional privilege: facilitation of crime or fraud exception Shair Mohamad, Mohd Akram Ramlee Saad, Zulfakar K Law (General) Where legal professional privilege attaches to communication between legal adviser and a client, the client is entitled to object to any third party seeing the communication for any purpose unless, (i) the client has agreed of waived his right, II) the advice is sought and given for a nefarious purpose, in furtherance of an illegal purpose. The brief article seeks to lay down the circumstances and the rationale where legal professional privilege does not apply and at the same time discussing the scope of exceptions. The Malaysian Current Law Journal Sdn Bhd 2015-10 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/48539/1/clj_15.pdf Shair Mohamad, Mohd Akram and Ramlee Saad, Zulfakar (2015) Displacement of legal professional privilege: facilitation of crime or fraud exception. Current Law Review, 8 (4). i-xii. ISSN 0127-0699 http://www.cljlaw.com/
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Shair Mohamad, Mohd Akram
Ramlee Saad, Zulfakar
Displacement of legal professional privilege: facilitation of crime or fraud exception
description Where legal professional privilege attaches to communication between legal adviser and a client, the client is entitled to object to any third party seeing the communication for any purpose unless, (i) the client has agreed of waived his right, II) the advice is sought and given for a nefarious purpose, in furtherance of an illegal purpose. The brief article seeks to lay down the circumstances and the rationale where legal professional privilege does not apply and at the same time discussing the scope of exceptions.
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author Shair Mohamad, Mohd Akram
Ramlee Saad, Zulfakar
author_facet Shair Mohamad, Mohd Akram
Ramlee Saad, Zulfakar
author_sort Shair Mohamad, Mohd Akram
title Displacement of legal professional privilege: facilitation of crime or fraud exception
title_short Displacement of legal professional privilege: facilitation of crime or fraud exception
title_full Displacement of legal professional privilege: facilitation of crime or fraud exception
title_fullStr Displacement of legal professional privilege: facilitation of crime or fraud exception
title_full_unstemmed Displacement of legal professional privilege: facilitation of crime or fraud exception
title_sort displacement of legal professional privilege: facilitation of crime or fraud exception
publisher The Malaysian Current Law Journal Sdn Bhd
publishDate 2015
url http://irep.iium.edu.my/48539/
http://irep.iium.edu.my/48539/
http://irep.iium.edu.my/48539/1/clj_15.pdf
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