legal privilege definition
legal privilege means the confidentiality accorded to any communication between a lawyer and a client for the purposes of obtaining or providing legal advice or legal representation in respect of any criminal matter but does not extend to any conduct of the lawyer or material in the possession or control of the lawyer for the purposes of aiding and abetting, assisting, attempting, counseling, conspiring, concealing or procuring the commission of criminal conduct by the client or any other person;
legal privilege means communications and/or documents between an attorney and his or her client for the purpose of rendering professional advice relating to pending or possible litigation. Legal Privilege does not apply to communications made with the intention of furthering a criminal purpose.
legal privilege means – • communications between a professional legal advisor and his client or any person representing his client made in connection with the giving of legal advice to the client; • communications between a professional legal advisor and his client or any person representing his client or between such an advisor or his client or any such representative and any other person made in connection with or in contemplation of legal proceedings and for the purposes of such proceedings; and • items enclosed with or referred to in such communications and made in connection with the giving of legal advice or in connection with or in contemplation of legal proceedings and for the purposes of such proceedings, when they are in the possession of a person who is entitled to possession of them. Items held with the intention of furthering a criminal purpose are not subject to legal privilege.
More Definitions of legal privilege
legal privilege means
(i) communications between a professional legal advisor and his client or any person representing his client made in connection with the giving of legal advice to the client;
(ii) communications between a professional legal advisor and his client or any person representing his client or between such an advisor or his client or any such representative and any other person made in connection with, or in contemplation of, legal proceedings and for the purposes of such proceedings; and
(iii) items enclosed with or referred to in such communications and made
(a) in connection with the giving of legal advice; or
(b) in connection with, or in contemplation of, legal proceedings and for the purposes of such proceedings, when they are in the possession of a person who is entitled to possession of them. Items held with the intention of furthering a criminal purpose are not subject to legal privilege;
legal privilege means solicitor-client privilege, litigation privilege or any other type of legal privilege (including a privilege of the law of evidence).
legal privilege means communications made between advocate and his client or any person representing the client, in connection with or in contemplation of judicial proceedings which are privileged communications under the Evidence Act, 1872;