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forensic: privilege


A rule of evidence that excludes data from a hearing or trial derived from certain socially useful relationships such as those between attorney and client, physician and patient, or clergy and confessor.*

Also: confidentiality

Books and Other Media:
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  • Mumford DVD Loren Dean, Hope Davis, Jane Adams, David Paymer 1999

*Committee on Psychiatry and Law, of the Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry The Mental Health Professional and the Legal System Paperback 1992 American Psychiatric Press



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