Legal Advice Privilege in UK Law
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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 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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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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Comparative standards of legal advice privilege for tax advisers and optimal reform proposals for English law
The widely accepted rationale for legal advice privilege between client and lawyer applies equally to tax advisers giving their clients fiscal legal advice. This article undertakes a comprehensive ...
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Legal advice privilege: The legacy of Three Rivers (No. 5) and the challenge of providing consistent protection to all client types
Legal advice privilege operates in the corporate context subject to a dominant purpose test and an agency-based control mechanism. This mechanism fails to reflect the privilege's rationale and prev...
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Legal professional privilege in corporate criminal investigations
This article considers two areas that arise in the context of corporate criminal investigations relating to claims of legal professional privilege: the extent to which litigation privilege may atta...... ... made in the context of such investigations and the difficulty of identifying the client for the purposes of legal advice" privilege. These issues are of particular significance where a company is or may be the subject of an investigation by specialist\xC2" ... ...
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Financial services compensation scheme's claim for legal privilege upheld
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to report and comment on Financial Services Compensation Scheme Ltd v. Abbey National Treasury Services plc. Design/methodology/approach: The paper outlines t...... ... the facts surrounding the cas e andcomments on the decision.Findings – The Court agreed with the FSCS’s view and upheld its claim to legal advice" privilegefor both the questions and answers and the relevant narrative commentaries that appeared on theinvestor claim checklists.Originality/value \xE2\x80" ... ...
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The right to silence: Inferences and interference
The right to silence, or the privilege against self-incrimination, has long been recognised as an important procedural protection for the accused in the criminal process. The legislature of New Sou...... ... Abstract The right to silence, or the privilege against self-incrimination, has long been ... the right to silence and the right to legal advice, including the issues of duty solicitor ... ...
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‘If a Picture Paints a Thousand Words’: The Development of Human Identification Techniques in Forensic Anthropology and Their Implications for Human Rights in the Criminal Process
Newly developed techniques in forensic anthropology offer great potential to assist in identifying, and ultimately convicting, perpetrators of serious sexual assaults, particularly those involving ...... ... to privacy and bodily integrity; the privilege against compelled self-incrimination; and the ht to legal advice, and addresses the question: what are the ... ...
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Noticeboard
... ... Kingdom and Canada In the past three months legal professional privilege has been a keenly ... ground-breaking judgments about legal advice privilege. The issue in Three Rivers District ... ...
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