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Index for "4th Edition, Chapter 11"

Public hearings

The Institute of Chartered Accountants in England & Wales (ICAEW) agreed that its disciplinary hearings will be conducted in public from 1 January 2008. -- The move to open hearings will affect all ca...

Public hearings: the overarching principle

Held: the principle of an oral and public hearing was particularly important in the criminal context. The obligation to hold a hearing was not, however, absolute. There could be proceedings in which a...

Qualified privilege in reports

The defence of qualified privilege … is still in the process of development: Seaga v. Harper (Jamaica) [2008] UKPC 9, in which it was said that the decision in Reynolds v. Times Newspapers Ltd and O...