A privilege protecting individuals and entities from divulging the results of candid assessments of their compliance with laws and regulations, to the extent that the assessments are internal, the results were intended from the outset to be confidential, and the information is of a type that would be curtailed if it were forced to be disclosed.
• This privilege is founded on the public policy that it is beneficial to permit individuals and entities to confidentially evaluate their compliance with the law, so that they will monitor and improve their compliance with it.
— Also termed self-policing privilege; self-evaluation privilege. [Cases: Witnesses 184(1). C.J.S. Witnesses § 297.]
双语律师李明，国际知名法学院法律专业，擅长翻译各类与
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