Solicitor-Client Privilege and Litigation Privilege in Civil Litigation

This paper examines the nature and scope of solicitor-client privilege and litigation privilege. Contrary to a recent article suggesting that there are no real differences between them, it is argued that the two privileges are distinct in terms of both their underlying purposes and the requisite conditions to invoke them. Most importantly, confidentiality is a requirement of solicitor-client privilege but not of litigation privilege. Moreover, extending solicitor-client privilege to communications from third parties (as proposed in the recent article) would be dangerous. It would stretch the scope of that privilege beyond its justification of necessity, and open the way for lawyers to develop and offer a new product line : namely, confidentiality. Whatever third party communications a client desires to keep secret could conveniently be clothed with privilege simply by having lawyers act as a conduit for such communications and asking them for their legal opinion thereon (as it now appears the tobacco industry has been doing for some time with research data). A strong policy reason for confining solicitor-client privilege to direct communications between lawyer and client is to limit the potential abuse of the privilege. Further, since the assertion of privilege inevitably impedes the truth finding process, the public interest is best served by confining the scope of solicitor-client privilege within narrow limits. For the same reason, the concept of agents must be accorded a narrow meaning in the context of solicitor-client privilege, so as not to render agency a back-door through which third party communications attract solicitor-client privilege

STM induced manipulation of azulene-based molecules and nanostructures: the role of the dipole moment

Among the different mechanisms that can be used to drive a molecule on a surface by the tip of a scanning tunneling microscope at low temperature, we used voltage pulses to move azulene-based single molecules and nanostructures on Au(111). Upon evaporation, the molecules partially cleave and form metallo-organic dimers while single molecules are very scarce, as confirmed by simulations. By applying voltage pulses to the different structures under similar conditions, we observe that only one type of dimer can be controllably driven on the surface, which has the lowest dipole moment of all investigated structures. Experiments under different bias and tip height conditions reveal that the electric field is the main driving force of the directed motion. We discuss the different observed structures and their movement properties with respect to their dipole moment and charge distribution on the surface

Magnetic Dipole Sum Rules for Odd-Mass Nuclei

Sum rules for the total- and scissors-mode M1 strength in odd-A nuclei are derived within the single-j interacting boson-fermion model. We discuss the physical content and geometric interpretation of these sum rules and apply them to ^{167}Er and ^{161}Dy. We find consistency with the former measurements but not with the latter.Comment: 13 pages, Revtex, 1 figure, Phys. Rev. Lett. in pres

Predicting Pass Receiver In Football Using Distance Based Features

International audienceThis paper presents our approach to the football pass prediction challenge of the Machine Learning and Data Mining for Sport Analytics workshop at ECML/PKDD 2018. Our solution uses distance based features to predict the receiver of a pass. We show that our model is able to improve prediction results obtained on a similar dataset. One particularity of our approach is the use of failed passes to improve the predictions

Results of an interlaboratory comparison for characterization of Pt nanoparticles using single-particle ICP-TOFMS

This study describes an interlaboratory comparison (ILC) among nine (9) laboratories to evaluate and validate the standard operation procedure (SOP) for single-particle (sp) ICP-TOFMS developed within the context of the Horizon 2020 project ACEnano. The ILC was based on the characterization of two different Pt nanoparticle (NP) suspensions in terms of particle mass, particle number concentration, and isotopic composition. The two Pt NP suspensions were measured using icpTOF instruments (TOFWERK AG, Switzerland). Two Pt NP samples were characterized and mass equivalent spherical sizes (MESSs) of 40.4 ± 7 nm and 58.8 ± 8 nm were obtained, respectively. MESSs showed <16% relative standard deviation (RSD) among all participating labs and <4% RSD after exclusion of the two outliers. A good agreement was achieved between the different participating laboratories regarding particle mass, but the particle number concentration results were more scattered, with <53% RSD among all laboratories, which is consistent with results from previous ILC studies conducted using ICP-MS instrumentation equipped with a sequential mass spectrometer. Additionally, the capabilities of sp-ICP-TOFMS to determine masses on a particle basis are discussed with respect to the potential for particle density determination. Finally, because quasi-simultaneous multi-isotope and multi-element determinations are a strength of ICP-TOFMS instrumentation, the precision and trueness of isotope ratio determinations were assessed. The average of 1000 measured particles yielded a precision of below ±1% for intensity ratios of the most abundant Pt isotopes, i.e.194Pt and 195Pt, while the accuracy of isotope ratios with the lower abundant isotopes was limited by counting statistics