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Privileged communications between lawyers and clients are protected under the Evidence Act, and are intended to ensure that the profession of law is responsibly and freely carried out.
Pioneer Legal
Legal privilege refers to the legal protection given to communications, documents and advice exchanged between a party and his / her legal professional adviser from being disclosed to the court or other persons.
Legacy Law Offices
Recently, the world has seen landmark advancements in the field of artificial intelligence where one of the most popular innovation, has been the release of an application called Chat GPT, which has been described as an artificially intelligent chat-bot ...
S&A Law Offices
The term "without prejudice" plays an imperative role in commercial contracts, as it provides protection to the party from the admissions/contradictions made in the written correspondence in a manner that no rights or privileges are waived or lost.
Tuli & Co
The Bombay High Court has reiterated that communications between a lawyer and client are privileged and cannot be disclosed to a third party without the express consent of the client.
Clasis Law
The provenance of ‘Without Prejudice' correspondences under Indian Law can be traced back to the provisions under Section 23 of the Indian Evidence Act, 1872 ("Evidence Act").
Agama Law Associates
The concept of attorney-client privilege has been imbibed in the Indian law by virtue of Section 126 and Section 129 of the Indian Evidence Act, 1872 ("Evidence Act").
Gravitas Legal
In the late 1600s, a German Attorney G. W. Leibniz theorized that machines would someday use a binary system to calculate numbers, and he envisioned a partnership between Artificial Intelligence (AI) and lawyers ...
S&A Law Offices
One of the tenets of natural justice is to run a fair trial and to provide absolute justice as equal opportunities must be given to both the parties to access the documents related to the case.
King, Stubb & Kasiva
The Apex Court in the case of Arjun Panditrao Khotkar v. Kailash Kushanrao Gorantyal and Ors. brought an end to an ongoing conflict w.r.t. interpretation of Section 65B of Indian Evidence Act...
Khaitan & Co LLP
The conflicted interpretation of Section 65B of the Indian Evidence Act, 1872 by two judgments of the Supreme Court was referred to a three judge Bench of the Supreme Court in the case of Arjun Panditrao Khotkar v. Kailash Kushanrao Gorantyal And Ors.[...
Luthra and Luthra Law Offices India
Relevant facts have been defined in Section 3 and 5 of the Indian Evidence Act, 1872 (hereinafter referred to as ‘Act').
Clarus Law Associates
The Supreme Court upheld the Delhi High Court's order.
Nishith Desai Associates
‘Confidentiality' is critical to the practice of law.
LexOrbis
The role of experts and their testimony in highly technical matters is indispensable.
Vaish Associates Advocates
This need to change has been very well recognized by the courts as well as the legislature in India.
Nishith Desai Associates
The "without prejudice" rule governs admissibility of evidence and is founded on the public policy of encouraging litigants to settle their differences rather than litigate them towards a conclusion.
Nishith Desai Associates
Litigation privilege will apply to communications between clients and their attorneys if there is reasonable contemplation of criminal proceedings.
S&A Law Offices
The dictionary defines it as contradiction is the act of saying something that is opposite or very different in meaning to something else what is said earlier.
Nishith Desai Associates
Legal advice given to avoid, or even settle proceedings which are reasonably contemplated, would receive the same level litigation privilege as in cases of defending or resisting litigation.
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