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Chapter 7: Privilege: Buckley v Dalziel & Anor [2007] EWHC 1025 (QB)

The public interest requires that those involved in a criminal investigation should be able to communicate freely and without being inhibited by the threat of proceedings for defamation. That requirem...

Press release concerning a disciplinary investigation

A power to do all such things as it may consider are conducive to securing the objectives of the accountants’ Joint Disciplinary Scheme was held to include a power in the Executive Committee to issu...

When should a disciplinary investigation be stayed pending civil proceedings?

As Stanley Burnton J. Observed in the case of Land & Ors, R (on the application of) v Executive Counsel of the Joint Disciplinary Scheme [2002] EWHC 2086 (Admin): -- ‘The Divisional Court in R v Cha...