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confidential communication

confidential communication : a communication between parties to a confidential relation (as husband and wife, attorney and client, or doctor and patient) such that the recipient of the communication has a privilege exempting him or her from disclosing it as a witness called also privileged communication ...


Confidential report

Confidential report, a confidential report is intended to be general assessment of work performed by a Government servant subordinate to the reporting authority, that such reports are maintained for the purpose of serving as data of comparative merit when questions of promotion, confirmation, etc. arise. They also show that such reports are not ordinarily to contain specific incidents upon which assessments are made except in cases where as a result of any specific incident a censure or a warning is issued and when such warning is by an order to be kept in the personal file of the Government servant, R.L. Butail v. Union of India, (1971) 2 SCR 55: (1970) 2 SCC 876 (880). [CCS (Classification Central and Appeal) Rules 1965, R. 11]...


confidential

confidential 1 : known or conveyed only to a limited number of people [a disclosure] 2 : marked by or indicative of intimacy, mutual trust, or willingness to confide esp. between parties one of whom is in a position of superiority [the relationship of doctor and patient] 3 : containing information whose unauthorized disclosure could be prejudicial to the national interest con·fi·den·ti·al·i·ty [kÄ n-fi-den-chē-a-lə-tē] n con·fi·den·tial·ly adv ...


confidential relationship

confidential relationship : fiduciary relationship ...


confidentiality

confidentiality The relation between lawyer and client which guarantees any information shared by the client is treated as private and as such cannot be divulged to third parties without the client's consent. Source: FindLaw ...


Confidential

Enjoying or treated with confidence trusted in trustworthy as a confidential servant or clerk...


confidentiality

the state or attribute of being secret privacy as you must respect the confidentiality of your clients communications...


Confidential communication

Confidential communication. See PRIVILEGED COMMUNICATION....


Confidential information

Confidential information, means: (1) information furnished to the council by a government depart-ment upon terms (however expressed) which forbid the disclosure of the information to the public, and (2) information the disclosure of which to the public is prohibited by or under any enactment or by the order of a court; in either case, the reference to the obligation of confidence is to be construed accordingly, Local Government Act, 1972, s. 100A(3) (UK) Halsbury's Laws of England, Vol. 1(1), para 39, p. 62....


Confidential relationship

Confidential relationship, is one in which one party has ceded such a degree of trust and confidence as to require the other, on grounds of public policy, to show that it has not been betrayed or abused, Goldsworthy v. Brickell, (1987) Ch 378 (UK).Which raise the presumption are left unlimited by definition, wide open for identification on the facts and in all the circumstances of each particular case as it arises, Graig, Menecar (in re:) v. Middleton, (1971) Ch 95....


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