principle of professional discretion

principle of discretionary prosecution | principle of discretion in prosecution

pledge of secrecy | professional discretion | secrecy

discretionary prosecution | opportunity principle | principle of opportunity | prosecutorial discretion

principle of limited discretion in prosecution

The Principles of Professional Conduct

principle of professionalism

The national guide to sustainable municipal infrastructure, also known as InfraGuide, developed the best practice entitled “Selecting a Professional Consultant”, which promotes the principles of qualifications-based selection, or QBS, rather than price-based selection as the best method of selecting a professional consultant, and that is discrete from a contractor.

The extension of the requirements laid down in the money laundering directive to cover lawyers as a matter of principle has given rise to doubts as to whether the complete confidentiality of the information communicated to a lawyer is still guaranteed. This question is all the more relevant because in individual cases a client at least may find it difficult to draw a distinction between a lawyer's financial service-related activities, pursuant to the list in Article 2(1)(3)(b), and the act of providing legal advice, which is covered by lawyer-client privilege. Under these circumstances, it is particularly worrying that the prot ...[+++]ection of professional confidentiality should not be a binding requirement, but has instead been left to the discretion of the Member States.

Obviously, the system does bend the principles of discretion or of professional secrecy of financial organizations, or even where it exists, banking secrecy.