Mann v Carnell

[1999] HCA 66
Judgment date
Case number
C10/1999
Before
Gleeson CJ, Gaudron, McHugh, Gummow, Kirby, Callinan JJ
Catchwords

Practice and procedure – Preliminary discovery – Legal professional privilege – Loss of privilege – Waiver by disclosure to third party.

Australian Capital Territory – Separation of powers – Representative government – Nature of relationship between the ACT Legislative Assembly and the ACT Executive.

Words and phrases – "client legal privilege".

Evidence Act 1995 (Cth), ss 118, 122.

Supreme Court Rules (ACT), O 34A rr 2, 5.

Australian Capital Territory (Self-Government) Act 1988 (Cth).