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An admitting privilege is the right of a doctor to admit patients to a hospital for medical treatment without first having to go through an emergency department.This is generally restricted to doctors on the hospital staff, although in some countries such as Canada and the United States, both general practitioners and specialists can have admitting privileges.
Attorney–client privilege or lawyer–client privilege is the common law doctrine of legal professional privilege in the United States. Attorney–client privilege is "[a] client's right to refuse to disclose and to prevent any other person from disclosing confidential communications between the client and the attorney."
The U.S. Supreme Court stated that non-residents had a protected privilege of practicing law on substantially similar terms as those enjoyed by residents of the state. [12] Therefore, a state cannot discriminate against non-resident applicants for admission on motion solely because the applicant does not reside in the state.
With regard to adoptive admissions, even a party's silence can be a basis for admitting evidence under this exemption. In some jurisdictions, the court is required to let the jury consider whether the silence was an adoptive admission. [7] The rule creates an issue in criminal prosecutions of multiple defendants.
The privilege belongs to the client, not to the legal adviser, although the legal adviser would usually raise privilege in the first place. The privilege falls away if there is waiver, express or implied or imputed, by the client. The legal adviser in that case must give the evidence, since his client has consented to its disclosure.
The diploma privilege in Wisconsin dates to 1870, when it was passed by the Wisconsin State Legislature in the same legislation that established the University of Wisconsin Law School. At that time a law department was established in the State University and a course of study under able instructors was prescribed for students in the law department.
R v Gruenke [1991] 3 S.C.R. 263 is a leading Supreme Court of Canada decision on privilege. The court developed a case-by-case test for determining if a communication is privileged. Prior to the test, only communications that fell into one of narrow set of privilege classes could gain protection from being submitted in a court of law.
Privileges and Immunities may refer: . in international law, to privileges and immunities afforded by international treaties: Diplomatic immunity; Consular immunity