"We are not talking about a privilege - basic healthcare is a human right, " he says.
And he has used parliamentary privilege - which provides the centuries old legal guarantee of free speech in the Commons - to bring some of the injuncted issues into the public domain.
For example, in the three or four cases that the Bush administration has asserted the privilege - in the NSA eavesdropping program context, I can imagine, having served at the National Security Council and the CIA, any number of scenarios under which it would be tremendously damaging to our national security for al-Qaida to understand any of the facts about this program.
In a free society, private payments should be covered by merchant-customer privilege just as attorney-client privilege covers confidential legal communication.
The firms have resisted, insisting that the documents are protected by either attorney-client privilege or attorney "work product" privilege, or by a new tax practitioner-client privilege Congress created in 1998.
It protects documents that would normally be protected by the common-law attorney-client privilege, except in corporate tax-shelter cases and criminal cases.
Relevant case law has revolved around the Fifth Amendment privilege against self-incrimination.
Are brokerages especially trustworthy that they should be permitted the privilege of self-regulation when these other financial institutions are not?
Even though they have not advised you of your rights, you can still exercise your Fifth Amendment privilege against self-incrimination.
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You try to quash the subpoena based on your Constitutional privilege against self-incrimination, since handing over the records clearly would incriminate you.
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In the United States, relevant case law has revolved around the Fifth Amendment privilege against self-incrimination as there is currently no specific law regarding key disclosure.
And lawyers representing taxpayers with undisclosed offshore accounts are asking the United States Supreme Court to clarify the scope of the privilege against self-incrimination in this important context.
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But this exhibit, which begins Wednesday and ends May 6, is risky business, insofar as it might over-privilege Van Gogh's famous pathology at the expense of his achievement.
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It is a special privilege as Secretary-General of the United Nations to meet so many distinguished military leaders, and also, more importantly, many troops who have contributed to peace and security around the world.
Hiram Eastland, a lawyer representing former Espy aide Ron Blackley, says Smaltz's lawyers put Blackley's wife on the stand and tried to get her to testify against her husband despite the long-standing marital-privilege doctrine.
David Willetts, the universities minister, argues that grammar schools entrench privilege because middle-class parents now prepare their children so well for the entrance exams that clever children who have not been coached do not pass.
And they're looking back and they're saying this dates back so many years, that a disputed election was just the catalyst, that we need to address things like ethnicity, power, privilege, equality - these are the deep-seated problems that Kenya has to deal with.
Rep. Dan Burton (R-Ind.) said Chung refused to give sworn testimony, invoking his Fifth Amendment privilege against possible self-incrimination.
And, basically, the interpretation in the vast majority of these cases - I think we're running up around 60 of these throughout the history of this privilege, since the - after the second World War.
The firm waived all privileges, including the attorney-client privilege, and gave the government full access to its records and memos, even taking onto its staff a government-approved compliance monitor.
It's a governmental privilege that allows them - usually what happens, in fact, is that the government says, we want to invoke this privilege, and we want to dismiss this case.
The incidents occurred in February and May 2003, according to the request to waive physician-patient privilege.
The public defender's office refused to disclose the costs, citing the gag order and attorney-client privilege.
Because of attorney-client privilege, the IRS generally cannot make your lawyer talk or produce documents.
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Having your tax lawyer act as the liaison for all communications can import attorney-client privilege.
Firms regularly withhold information from the Commission regarding illegalities under the attorney-client privilege and by other means.
But the attorney-client privilege itself, which the practitioner privilege mimics, is narrower than often believed, experts say.
It also remains to be seen how the courts deal with Mr Bush's clipping of attorney-client privilege.
They see this elitism, this excessive privilege and this snobbery--and I don't think we want more of that.
Where the attorney-client privilege is at issue, failure to use sufficient precautions may be considered in determining waiver.
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