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Definition of Privileged communication

Privileged communication
Privileged Priv"i*leged, a. Invested with a privilege; enjoying a peculiar right, advantage, or immunity. Privileged communication. (Law) (a) A communication which can not be disclosed without the consent of the party making it, -- such as those made by a client to his legal adviser, or by persons to their religious or medical advisers. (b) A communication which does not expose the party making it to indictment for libel, -- such as those made by persons communicating confidentially with a government, persons consulted confidentially as to the character of servants, etc. Privileged debts (Law), those to which a preference in payment is given out of the estate of a deceased person, or out of the estate of an insolvent. --Wharton. --Burrill. Privileged witnesses (Law) witnesses who are not obliged to testify as to certain things, as lawyers in relation to their dealings with their clients, and officers of state as to state secrets; also, by statute, clergymen and physicans are placed in the same category, so far as concerns information received by them professionally.

Meaning of Privileged communication from wikipedia

- In the law of evidence, a privilege is a rule of evidence that allows the holder of the privilege to refuse to disclose information or provide evidence...
- communications privilege or confidences privilege is a form of privileged communication that protects the contents of confidential communications between...
- members of their congregation. This rule recognises certain communication as privileged and not subject to otherwise obligatory disclosure, similar to...
- Public-interest immunity (PII), previously known as Crown privilege, is a principle of English common law under which the English courts can grant a court...
- some jurisdictions, conversations between a patient and physician may be privileged in both criminal and civil courts. The privilege may cover the situation...
- Deliberative process privilege is the common-law principle that the internal processes of the executive branch of a government are immune from normal disclosure...
- Information shared by a client with a therapist is considered as privileged communication, however in certain cases and based on certain provinces and states...
- Reporter's privilege in the United States (also journalist's privilege, newsman's privilege, or press privilege), is a "reporter's protection under constitutional...
- A shield law is legislation designed to protect reporters' privilege. This privilege involves the right of news reporters to refuse to testify as to the...
- The Justice and Security Act 2013 (c. 18) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, firstly to provide for oversight of the Security Service (MI5)...