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- Limits of Documentary Privilege Against Self-Incrimination
- The article highlights the fact that the Fifth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution declares that no person shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself. The privilege against self-incrimination applies to individual corporate or partnership officers acting in that capacity as well as to individual...
- White papers 2003-04-01
- Removing Privileges Doesn't Work
- It's interesting how people have a tendency to take their own privileges away if they feel they’re under-performing. I’ve certainly been guilty of this myself. In the past if I have had an unproductive few hours --- time where I've allowed myself to get distracted and effectively,...
- Blog posts 2008-09-24
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- Expanding the definition of privilege: the concept of social privilege.
- Examinations of privilege have historically focused on gender and race. By placing privilege within the context of oppression, the authors offer an expanded view of the domains of privilege that include sexual orientation, socioeconomic status, age, differing degrees of ableness, and religious affiliation. ...
- Research articles 2005-10-01
- Tax practitioner privilege must be handled with care
- The so-called tax practitioner privilege came into the law in 1998 as part of the IRS Restructuring and Reform Act of 1998 (Code Sec. 7525). The goal was to put tax practitioners other than tax attorneys on a more equal playing field in terms of their ability to engage in...
- Research articles 2003-11-03
- Something to Hide: Clinton's Misuse of Executive Privilege.
- During the Lewinsky scandal, President Bill Clinton and several of his advisers made extensive use of executive privilege. Although nowhere mentioned in the Constitution, executive privilege is an implied power that enables presidents and high-level executive branch officers to withhold information from Congress, the courts, and,...
- Research articles 1999-09-01
- CPA-client confidentiality, the new federal accountant-client privilege
- The Internal Revenue Service Restructuring and Reform Act of 1998 gives taxpayers a privilege regarding written or verbal tax advice from a CPA. The new legislation covers all Federally authorized tax practitioners, including CPAs, attorneys, enrolled agents, and enrolled actuaries. IRC sec 7525 provides a Federal statutory privilege of confidentiality...
- Research articles 2000-01-01
- Executive privilege revived?: secrecy and conflict during the Bush presidency.
- INTRODUCTION Although well established now as a legitimate presidential power, executive privilege remains controversial. Executive privilege is controversial in part because some presidents have overreached in exercising this authority. Presidential attempts to conceal evidence of wrongdoing during the Watergate scandal that led to...
- Research articles 2002-11-01
- Legal professional privilege.
- March, 2002 Law Institute Journal ABIX via COMTEX -- The debate over legal professional privilege has intensified in recent years. Modifications to the rules governing privilege have led to confusion in both the legal profession and the business community. A recent court decision involving...
- Research articles 2002-02-28
- Under attack - legal professional privilege.
- Byline: Emilios Kyrou Mar 09, 2007 (Law Institute Journal - ABIX via COMTEX) -- Recent court decisions suggest that legal professional privilege for in-house lawyers is under attack. In-house lawyers' professional privilege will continue to be challenged. The Australian Taxation Office ATO has ...
- Research articles 2007-03-09
- Tax privilege, a mixed blessing
- Undoubtedly, the provision of the IRS Restructuring and Reform Act of 1998 (H.R. 2676) that will most impact CPAs is a brief, 25-line IRC provision extending the attorney-client privilege to clients of CPAs and other tax advisors authorized to practice before the IRS. (IRC section 7525, "Confidentiality Privileges Relating to...
- Research articles 1998-10-01
- Executive privilege in the Carter Administration: the "open" presidency and secrecy policy.
- The doctrine of executive privilege vests the President with the right to withhold information from the coordinate branches of government, including the public. A study reveals that the Carter administration tried to avoid the use of executive privilege while still defending the presidential right to withhold information through other sources...
- Research articles 1997-03-22
- Executive Privilege in the Ford Administration: Prudence in the Exercise of Presidential Power.
- "Executive Privilege in the Ford Administration: Prudence in the Exercise of Presidential Power." Mark J. Rozell examines the impact of executive privilege on presidential decision making in the Ford administration, showing how the administration tried to manage executive privilege controversies in the immediate post-Watergate years, a time period when the...
- Research articles 1998-03-22
- Executive Privilege in the Lewinsky Scandal: Giving a Good Doctrine a Bad Name.(Monica Lewinsky)
- Pres Bill Clinton's attempt to use executive privilege in the Monica Lewinsky sex scandal has damaged the legitimacy of the doctrine. Executive privilege is an important and necessary power that protects the security of government business. It also protects the public by delaying or preventing the release of official information...
- Research articles 1998-09-22
- The Law: Executive Privilege: Definition and Standards of Application.
- Executive privilege is the right of the president and high-level executive branch officials to withhold information from those with compulsory power--Congress and the courts (and, therefore, ultimately the public). Because it is nowhere mentioned in the Constitution and also due to the occasional abuses of that power, executive privilege is...
- Research articles 1999-12-01
- Senate takes up attorney-client privilege bill.
- A bill, supported by The Florida Bar, aimed at protecting the attorney-client privilege in federal criminal investigations, has had its first hearing in the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee. S. 186, sponsored by Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pa., was taken up by the committee on September...
- Research articles 2007-10-15
- Has 'privilege' lost its reward? Company officials can and sometimes should turn down auditors' requests to turn over privileged documents or waive attorney-client privilege. Recent calls for regulatory guidance may help, experts say.(legal issues)
- Attorney-client privilege has long been recognized and respected by the legal system, since the confidentiality it provides instills confidence among attorneys and clients to discuss sensitive matters, including compliance with laws and regulations, remediation of noncompliance and defense of those accused of breaking the law. ...
- Research articles 2006-09-01
- Privilege claims for the "Bliley" documents: mixed rulings imperil basic principles: when a Congressional committee compels production of documents and places them on the Internet, is the claimed privilege lost forever?
- RECENT rulings by courts in the cigarette product liability litigation address a novel issue concerning the limits of attorney-client privilege and work product protection--the extent to which claims of privilege survive the compelled production of documents in response to a Congressional subpoena. In...
- Research articles 2002-01-01
- BeyondTrust Privilege Manager 3.0 Wins "Tech-Ed Attendees' Pick" Award for Security
- Leading Least Privilege Management Product for Windows Also Honored as "Best of Tech-Ed" Awards Finalist for Security by Windows IT Pro, SQL Server Magazine and Office & Sharepoint Pro.com PORTSMOUTH, N.H. -- BeyondTrust Corporation, the first provider of Least Privilege Management solutions, today announced that Privilege Manager 3.0 was...
- Research articles 2007-06-26
- Privtrans: Automatically Partitioning Programs for Privilege Separation
- This white paper document is involved in designing techniques and developing a tool called Privtrans that allows us to automatically add privilege separation to source code, provided a few programmer annotations. Additionally, the report proposes optimization techniques that augment static analysis with dynamic information. These optimization techniques reduce the number...
- White papers 2004-02-01
- Gimme (tax) shelter; BDO tries to block IRS probe.(News)(Chicago accounting firm claims client privilege )
- Byline: JULIE JOHNSSON A courtroom showdown over client privilege at Chicago accounting firm BDO Seidman LLC has tax advisers-and their white-shoe clientele-on edge nationwide as the federal government cracks down on tax shelters. In a last-ditc Byline: JULIE JOHNSSON ...
- Research articles 2003-08-11
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