Excerpt of the Table of Contents:
Abstract;Table of Cases;Table of Statutes; Preface; Introduction;
Chapter One: Review of Religious Confession Privilege in Early Evidence Texts
Chapter Two: Religious Confession Privilege in Historical Context
Chapter Three: Religious Confession and Privilege in Canon Law
Chapter Four: Religious Confession Privilege at Common Law From the Seventeenth to the Twentieth Century
Chapter Five: Religious Communications Privilege at Common Law
Chapter Six: Theories About the Extinction of Religious Confession Privilege
Chapter Seven: Religious Confession Privilege at Common Law in Australia
Chapter Eight: Religious Confession Privilege at Common Law in the United Kingdom and Ireland
Chapter Nine: Religion Confession Privilege in the United States
Chapter Ten: Religious Confession Privilege in Canada and New Zealand
Chapter Eleven: Religious Confession Privilege in South Africa
Chapter Twelve: Policy – Should There Be a Religious Confession Privilege?
Conclusion; Bibliography.

About the Author

A. Keith Thompson, LLB (Hons) (1981); M Jur (1993), University of Auckland, PhD (2007) in Law, Murdoch University, worked as Area Legal Counsel in the Pacific for the LDS Church from 1991 until 2009 following a career in commercial law as a partner in an Auckland law firm. He now works as Area Legal Counsel for the LDS Church for Africa from offices in Ghana.