Yet attorney-client privilege is rarely tested in this context, and these cases mostly are about being careful in observing formalities.

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They completed the formalities in Donetsk after a scintillating performance at the Camp Nou six days ago that had all but secured their progression into the last four for a fourth successive season.

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After the formalities of swearing in, the cabinet is to go into session this weekend, before the start of the country's Orthodox Easter celebrations.

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Enacted in 1994, Section 514 restores copyrights in foreign works previously in the public domain for failure to comply with formalities, lack of subject matter protection or lack of national eligibility, according to the opinion.

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In future, it advised, mergers must not be mere formalities, but must allow the rationalisation of staff and branches.

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Pakistan's foreign office said the government was completing all formalities to hand over Singh's remains to the Indian high commission in Islamabad as early as possible.

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One of her clients, whose husband died in the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, still has one account in his name, because it has taken so much energy to deal with all the formalities.

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