Legal professional privilege & RIP Bill

[Nicholas Bohm]

At 08:26 PM 5/31/2000 +0100, M.Wells@leeds.ac.uk wrote:
>Nicholas Bohm wrote:
>
>> For anyone unfamiliar, legal professional privilege is the client's right
>> not to have the content of certain communications disclosed.  Those
>> communications are ones between client and lawyer seeking or giving legal
>> advice, and those sent for the purpose of contemplated litigation
(roughly).
>
>BIG SNIP
>
>Can anyone on the list give a similarly succint statement for the 
>situation regarding communications between Medical advisers and 
>their Patients?
>
>If there is any, broadly equivalent, privelege should someone be 
>writing a similar letter?

Medical communications will be confidential, expressly or by implication,
but there is no privilege in the sense that courts would not refuse to
compel disclosure where relevant to litigation.

That doesn't mean that a letter from some suitable body or person wouldn't
be a Good Thing.

Regards,

Nicholas Bohm

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