A district judge in New York ruled that US authorities can access and search through electronic data stored by US companies on servers based outside the US.

At the heart of this year's legal discourse was the critical question: do requests from authorities override legal privilege, or do such actions infringe upon fundamental human rights...

The movie industry has been exploiting the concepts of client-attorney privilege, confidentiality and professional secrecy with great abandon for decades.

Article 469A COCP, on the other hand, provides the procedure for the judicial review of administrative actions.

This overview is provided by Ganado, the Lex Mundi member firm for Malta.