Research Catalog

Title

Religious confession privilege at common law : a historical analysis / By A. Keith Thompson.

Author

Thompson, A. K. (Anthony Keith)

Publication

Leiden ; Boston : M. Nijhoff Publishers, 2011.

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Details

Description

xxvii, 395 p.; 25 cm.

Series Statement

Studies in religion, secular beliefs and human rights, 1871-7829 ; v. 9

Uniform Title

Studies in religion, secular beliefs, and human rights ; v. 9.

Subjects

• Liberty of conscience
• Confidential communications
• Evidence (Canon law)
• Confession (Law)
• Confession (Canon law)
• Freedom of religion
• Evidence (Law)

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [379]-388) and index.

Contents

Review of religious confession privilege in early evidence texts -- Religious confession privilege in historical context -- Religious confession and privilege in canon law -- Religious confession privilege at common law from the seventeenth century to the twentieth century -- Religious communications privilege at common law -- Theories about the extinction of religious confession privilege -- Religious confession at common law in Australia -- Religious confession privilege at common law in the United Kingdom and Ireland -- Religious confession privilege in the United States -- Religious confession privilege in Canada and New Zealand -- Religious confession privilege in South Africa -- Policy : should there be a religious confession privilege? -- Conclusion.

ISBN

• 9789004172326 (hardback : alk. paper)
• 9004172327 (hardback : alk. paper)

LCCN

2010053774

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library