Litigation
Oct. 7, 2003
Privileges Are Not Just About Excluding Testimony
Focus Column - Evidence Law - By Daniel Lee Jacobson - In 1956, professor David W. Louisell eloquently explained the nature of privileges: "[T]o conceive the privileges merely as exclusionary rules, is to start out on the wrong road and, except by happy accident, to reach the wrong destination. They are, or rather by the chance of litigation may become, exclusionary rules; but this is incidental and secondary."
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