The Law of Professional-Client Confidentiality: Regulating the Disclosure of Confidential Personal Information

This work provides a detailed survey of the law relating to the protection and disclosure of confidential personal information, taking as its unique focus the information associated with professional-client relationships. In addition to the law of breach of confidence itself, full analysis is also given to related areas of law such as copyright, privilege, data protection, privacy and freedom of information, as well as the professional codes of conduct.