Vocabulary:
lcsh
Type:
Topic
Note:
Work cat: Hollander, C. Conflicts of interest & Chinese walls, 2000: p. 96 ("Chinese Wall" is the expression used to refer
to an information barrier within the firm which is intended to ensure that information available to or known by certain members
of the firm is not available to other members of the firm)
Note:
1 All E.R. 517 HL (Bolkiah v. KPMG 1999) (aware of the possibility of a conflict of interest ... the firm erected an information
barrier (a so called Chinese wall) around the department)
Note:
Brewer's dictionary of phrase & fable, 1995 (Chinese wall. On the Stock Exchange, a ban on the passing of confidential financial
information from one department to another ...)
Note:
Dictionary of business terms, 2000 (Chinese wall: imaginary barrier between departments of a service company (broker, consultant)
constructed in an effort to avoid a conflict of interest)
