Legal Advice in UK Law
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Three Rivers District Council and Others v Governor and Company of the Bank of England (No 9)
...... submitted on behalf of the Bank to the Bingham Inquiry qualify for legal professional privilege? It is contended by the respondents, and was held ... legal professional privilege should be allowed to play where the advice or assistance sought by the lawyers is not advice or assistance about the ......
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R (Prudential Plc) v Special Commissioner of Income Tax
...... (Instructed by PricewaterhouseCoopers Legal LLP) . Respondents . James Eadie QC . ... to comply on the ground that the documents are covered by legal advice privilege (LAP), in a case where the legal advice was given by accountants ......
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Royal Bank of Scotland Plc v Etridge (No 2); Kenyon-Brown v Desmond Banks & Company (Undue Influence) (No 2); Bank of Scotland v Bennett; UCB Home Loans Corporation Ltd v Moore; National Westminster Bank Plc v Gill; Midland Bank Plc v Wallace; Barclays Bank Plc v Harris; Barclays Bank Plc v Coleman
...... and approach, I do not myself discern any significant difference of legal principle applicable to these cases, and I agree with both opinions. But ... Independent advice . . 20 Proof that the complainant received advice ......
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Balabel v Air India
...... 2 This case raises an important point concerning legal professional privilege. Boardly, the issue is whether such privilege ds only to communications seeking or conveying legal advice, or to all that passes between solicitor and client on matters within the ......
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Three Rivers District Council and Others v Governor and Company of the Bank of England (No. 9)
......The Bank have claimed legal professional privilege for numerous documents which came into existence ... of that category of legal professional privilege known as "legal advice privilege", viz. privilege in relation to legal advice that is not founded ......
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Pitt and Another v Holt and Another Futter and Another v Futter and Others
...... cases concerned with unsuccessful tax-planning arrangements, led one legal scholar (Professor Charles Mitchell, Reining in the rule in In Re ... of fact but will, on occasion (indeed, quite often) include taking advice from appropriate experts, whether the experts are lawyers, accountants, ......
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Credit Lyonnais Bank Nederland NV v Burch
......, informing them that Miss Burch had agreed to grant a second legal charge over the property to secure the borrowing of API and asking them to ... "Miss Burch should, of course, be advised to take independent legal advice." . . 7 On 9th July Belmont & Lowe replied, accepting ......
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Barclays Bank Plc v O'Brien
......O'Brien of the company's liability and a legal charge by both Mr. and Mrs. O'Brien of the matrimonial home to secure any ...(3) That you recommended that we should obtain independent legal advice before signing this letter." . . 9 In fact the ......
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R (Daly) v Secretary of State for the Home Department
...... 17.72 Subject to paragraph 17.73, staff may normally read legal correspondence only if the Governor has reasonable cause to suspect that ...: the right of access to a court; the right of access to legal advice; and the right to communicate confidentially with a legal adviser under ......
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Royal Bank of Scotland Plc v Etridge (No 2); Kenyon-Brown v Desmond Banks & Company (Undue Influence) (No 2); Bank of Scotland v Bennett; UCB Home Loans Corporation Ltd v Moore; National Westminster Bank Plc v Gill; Midland Bank Plc v Wallace; Barclays Bank Plc v Harris; Barclays Bank Plc v Coleman
...... set aside, the lender could rely on a certificate of independent legal advice given to the wife not by a solicitor but by a legal executive ......
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