In some cases, the courts have allowed issues of confidentiality might be dealt with by production of the documents to the other party’s lawyers only.\u00a0 They would give an undertaking to the court not to reveal the content except with special leave of the court and ensure that the commercial and financial interest of the party making disclosure is protected.<\/p>\n
The Irish courts have rolled back on this position and have highlighted the practical difficulties where information is known to counsel and solicitors but not to clients. The position gets anomalous where the parties are unrepresented.<\/p>\n\n
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Effect of Privilege The effect of privilege is that a person may decline to answer certain questions as a witness or produce documents in discovery, even if they are relevant or would be otherwise admissible.\u00a0 Most examples of privilege operate absolutely. They are not a matter of discretion on the part of the judge. Privilege […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[317,422],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4540"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4540"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35976,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4540\/revisions\/35976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}