General Provisions Relating to Privileges
Applied in 51 court decisions — leading case 8 Cal. 3d 301 - North v. Superior Court (1972)
Most recently applied in 2 Cal. 5th 282 - L.A. Cnty. Bd. of Supervisors v. Superior Court of L.A. Cnty. (December 2016)
Enacted by Stats. 1965, Ch. 299.
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Except as otherwise provided by statute:
(a) No person has a privilege to refuse to be a witness.
(b) No person has a privilege to refuse to disclose any matter or to refuse to produce any writing, object, or other thing.
(c) No person has a privilege that another shall not be a witness or shall not disclose any matter or shall not produce any writing, object, or other thing.
Official source: California Legislative Information. Reproduced from public-domain California statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.