Legal Advice in UK Law
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Legal advice privilege and artificial legal intelligence: Can robots give privileged legal advice?
Legal professional privilege entitles parties to legal proceedings to object to disclosing communications. The form of legal professional privilege that is now commonly known as ‘legal advice privi...
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Legal Advice Privilege and the Corporate Client
This article considers the question of which corporate communications attract legal advice privilege. Specifically, it assesses the implications of adopting, on the one hand, a narrow ‘control grou...
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Legal Advice and Pre-Trial Silence—Unreasonable Developments
This article examines recent case law concerning the drawing of adverse inferences, pursuant to s. 34 of the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994, from a suspect's failure to mention during p...
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Legal Advice Privilege and its Relevance to Corporations
This article considers whether the rationale for legal advice privilege applies to corporations. It examines the rationale for legal advice privilege in the aftermath of the disagreement between th...
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Choice, Privacy and Publicly Funded Legal Advice at Police Stations
Section 58 of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 confers on all suspects held in police custody a right to consult a solicitor in private. The free legal advice which suspects arrested for c...
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How the timing of police evidence disclosure impacts custodial legal advice
Presently, the police in England and Wales disclose their evidence at different points during the arrest and detention of a suspect. While the courts have not objected to this, past field research ...
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Children, Young People and Requests for Police Station Legal Advice: 25 years on from PACE
Informed by data extracted from 30,921 police electronic custody records, drawn from 44 police stations across four police force areas and including 5153 records of ...
- Evading Access to Legal Advice
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Tacticians, Stewards, and Professionals: The Politics of Publishing Select Committee Legal Advice
At Westminster, there are increasing pressures on select committees to publish in‐house legal advice. We suggest that examining the process of deciding to publish provides useful insights into the ...
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“But we had obtained professional/legal advice!”. The disclosure conundrum and directors' dilemma
Purpose: In recent enforcement actions by several capital market regulators in some common law jurisdictions, the issue of directors' reliance on legal advice in relation to compliance with their s...
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