Talk:Priest-penitent privilege in the UK
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Current law comes from Halsbury's Laws of England/ CRIMINAL LAW, EVIDENCE AND PROCEDURE /13. EVIDENCE /(5) PRIVILEGE/ (iii) Legal Professional Privilege /1163. Legal professional privilege - but this is not such a good source for the general reader so I will try to find something in a modern Exidence text.
The body of "History" is from the Catholic Encyclopedia. I am now going to try to align the contents therein with the citations in Halsbury which are:
- Eleventh Report of the Criminal Law Revision Committee, Evidence (General) 1972 (Cmnd 4991) para 272.
- 2 Co Inst 629
- Du Barre v Livette (1791) Peake 77
- Butler v Moore (1802) McNally, Evidence 253
- Broad v Pitt (1828) 3 C & P 518
- R v Gilham (1828) 1 Mood CC 186, CCR
- R v Griffin (1853) 6 Cox CC 219
- R v Hay (1860) 2 F & F 4
- Pais v Pais [1971] P 119, [1970] 2 All ER 491 - this is about priests acting as marriage guidance counsellors/divorce proceedings so not quite to our point.
I will do some more later this week. Cutler 19:59, 9 July 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Seal in Anglicanism
I have removed the sentence: In general, the Church of England does not regard confession as a sacrament, its exercise being optional so there is no doctrine of the Seal of the Confessional as it appears to be untrue - see Anglican sacraments. Cutler 13:30, 28 August 2006 (UTC)
