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From Whom No Secrets are Hid
Hazard, Geoffrey
Hazard, Geoffrey
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Abstract
The title of this contribution to the Charles Alan Wright festschrift is taken, as some will recognize, from the version of the Collect for Purity from the Book of Common Prayer used in the Episcopal Church, of which Professor Wright has been a life-long, devoted member. The title is thus appropriate personally for Professor Wright. The title is also topically appropriate because it states epigrammatically the policy of discovery under the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, which is the subject of this Paper. In the Collect, the Personage from whom no secrets are hid is, of course, God. The phrase reminds supplicants that the matters under confession are already known to the Addressee. The basic policy in the Federal Rules is that this same openness should apply as between opposing litigants.