Legal professional privilege does not apply strictly in child welfare cases. They are considered inquisitorial in nature. The primary issue is the welfare and best interests of the child.\u00a0 The courts take the view that the desirability of disclosure must be weighed against maintaining the privilege, in light of the interests of the child.\u00a0 The power to override privilege is exercised sparingly.<\/p>\n
Challenges to the validity of a will are not regarded as proceedings between parties, but more in the nature of an inquiry into the validity of the will. It is deemed desirable that the courts know all that the witness may know about the execution of the will. The court may be prepared to balance legal professional privilege against competing interests.<\/p>\n
There is mandatory disclosure of expert reports in personal injury cases. The requirement applies to experts who are to be called to give evidence.\u00a0 If a witness is not be called, legal privileg attaches. It may reattah, if the witness is withdrawn.<\/p>\n
They must exchange the substance of the evidence they propose to introduce. It need not necessarily he the whole report. Some discussed in the report may not necessarily require to be disclosed under the rules.<\/p>\n\n
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Legal Professional Privileges Legal professional privilege is designed to protect frank communications between lawyers and their clients.\u00a0 Without privilege, a lawyer could not be properly instructed as the client would not be in a position to communicate with him, freely.\u00a0 He should be in a position to discuss his case fully and openly, weaknesses and […]<\/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],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4543"}],"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=4543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4543\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}