Sentence examples for law of privilege from inspiring English sources

"It's a law of privilege; it's not democratic for one person to have so much power," said Giuseppe Fanfani, an opposition lawmaker who sits on the Chamber's justice commission.

The law of privilege does not permit selective disclosure.

Suppose the fish is caught on a Friday night and there is no one available at the palace until Monday morning except a telephonist who, not unnaturally, is unversed in the laws of privilege?

He had little use for the British aristocracy and criticizes it for its follies in its own country and in Ireland, and the vestiges, such as the Game Laws, of medieval privilege.

He founded several new towns two of them named Kazimierz after himself and gave them, together with already existing towns, the so-called Magdeburg Law, the privilege of self-government.

The city's Law Department said in court papers dated Tuesday that the order by Justice Marylin G. Diamond of State Supreme Court in Manhattan overlooked an appeals court assessment that the Police Department was not required to turn over the database because of law enforcement privilege.

While reiterating their commitment to "the cause of the union to secure peace through victory," they denounced Vallandigham's arrest and military trial as an abrogation of the right of the people to assemble and discuss the affairs of the government, liberty of speech and of the press, trial by jury, the law of evidence and the privilege of habeas corpus.

He then proceeded to indict himself as an arrogant defender of privilege by holding himself above the law.

Judge Kavanaugh noted that "49 states have recognized some sort of common-law privilege" protecting the confidentiality of reporters' relationships with their sources, and he questioned why lawyers for Toni Locy, the former USA Today reporter now facing a contempt citation, had not asserted that privilege more aggressively.

In addition, there is a long-established privileging within company law of one particular interest, that of the suppliers of finance, over those who supply labour and materials, and other groups affected by firms' activities.

The law remains the privilege of gentlemen, by which I mean people who are able to afford costs that often exceed £1m on each side.