§ 60-440 Effect of error in overruling claim of privilege.

If a judge makes a mistake by rejecting someone's claim that certain information is protected by privilege, only the person who actually owns that privilege can challenge the mistake later. Privilege is the legal protection that keeps certain private information, like conversations with a lawyer or spouse, out of court.

This means you can't complain on appeal about a privilege ruling unless the privilege belonged to you in the first place. For example, if a court wrongly forces someone to reveal a privileged conversation, only the person who owned that privilege, not other parties in the case, can use that mistake as grounds for appeal.

This rule exists because privileges protect specific people's rights to keep certain information private. Since the protection belongs to that specific person, only they have the right to object if the court gets it wrong. Other people involved in the case don't get to raise this issue on the privilege holder's behalf.