Chinese walls (Communication barriers)

found: 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)

found: 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)

found: 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 ...)

found: 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)