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The latest work by esteemed author G E Dal Pont examines confidentiality in the core aspects of the litigation process – a topical subject matter given, among other events, the media’s disregard of the Victorian County Court’s suppression and non-publication orders in the widely publicised Pell case as well as legislative developments seeking to promote the principle of open justice. The book covers, in a dedicated and comprehensive fashion, confidentiality in discovery, confidentiality by way of privilege, and the confidentiality inherent in closed court, suppression and non-publication orders.
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PROLOGUE
PART I – CONFIDENTIALITY VIA UNDERTAKING
Chapter 1 – Implied Undertakings — Object, Nature and Scope
Chapter 2 – Implied Undertakings — Duration
Chapter 3 – Implied Undertakings — Modification or Release
Chapter 4 – Express Undertakings
Chapter 5 – Consequences of Breach of Undertakings
PART II – CONFIDENTIALITY VIA PRIVILEGE
Chapter 6 – Legal Professional Privilege
Chapter 7 – Medical Privilege
Chapter 8 – Clerical Privilege
Chapter 9 – Journalistic Privilege
Chapter 10 – Other Confidentiality-Informed Privileges
PART III – CONFIDENTIALITY AND ‘OPEN JUSTICE’
Chapter 11 – Incursions into Open Justice
Chapter 12 – Closed Court Orders
Chapter 13 – Suppression and Non-publication Orders at Common Law
Chapter 14 – Suppression and Non-publication Orders under Statute
Chapter 15 – Suppression and Non-publication Order Scenarios
Chapter 16 – Open Justice and Tribunals
Chapter 17 – Open Justice and Arbitration