Peer review records, and other hospital documents of quality control committee meetings are generally not subject to subpoena duces tecum, since these have statutory immunity.

For more information on statutory immunity, see the page in this guide on lawful industrial action.

Note that a union cannot gain statutory immunity merely by holding a properly conducted secret ballot after previously calling for industrial action without one.

A ballot will not give a union statutory immunity from legal proceedings if industrial action is called by a person not specified or described on the voting paper.

After a nine-year struggle, due to the Bank's statutory immunity, the case went to trial in January 2004.

Yet when Denning considered that the demands of trade unions were extortionate he did not hesitate to attack their statutory immunity.

In my view the dock company is not entitled to any statutory immunities which may attach to the port authority.

This means that statutory immunity is therefore not available where the reason, or one of the reasons, for the industrial action is either:

For picketing to be lawful and therefore maintain the statutory immunity of those organising the industrial action, certain conditions must be met.

For more details, see the page in this guide on failure to gain statutory immunity - the legal consequences.