Sentence examples for common law right from inspiring English sources

"Legal professional privilege – the right to consult a legal adviser in confidence – is a long established common law right.

This idea of "face-to-face" confrontation has long been one of the most basic safeguards of the common law right to a fair trial.

"The right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed" refers to a pre-existing common law right of all adult white men at the time the Constitution was written.

His complaint was that he had been deprived of a centuries-old common law right: that of an accused person to confront and cross-examine the witnesses against him or her.

An arbitrator at the National Arbitration Forum ruled that Mrs. Clinton had a common law right to the trademark of her own name because of her public activities, even though she had never filed for a trademark.

Yesterday Edward Fitzgerald QC, for Mr Shayler, told Lord Woolf, the Lord Chief Justice, sitting with Mr Justice Wright and Mr Justice Leveson, that former agency members had a common law right to expose wrongdoing to the press.

It seeks unspecified damages for violations to Mr. Cha's "federal, state and common law rights".

Mr. Warren and Mr. Brandeis wrote, for example, that privacy, an intangible right, was as important as more tangible common law rights, like the ownership of private property.

This situation is fuelled by the widespread myth that cohabiting couples have "common law" rights, combined with existing law that is unclear and often unjust.

Laws passed by Parliament are not to be construed as abrogating fundamental common law rights, privileges and immunities in the absence of clear words.

But, it might be thought, as a last resort we can rely on the courts to protect our common law rights.