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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 31 July 2008
An extremely important article appeared in the Winter 1995 issue of Ecclesiastical Law Journal entitled ‘An Evidential Privilege for Priest-Penitent Communications’ by Professor D. W. Elliott, outlining the problems of imputing to sacramental confessions the status of privileged communications.
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13 ‘A sentence of deposition may be imposed after final (Judgment) by a Trial Court.’