Legal Privilege in UK Law
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Legal Privilege and Covid-19 – Part I
Part I discuses the concept of attorney-client privilege, work product doctrine and the legal position in the US and the UK. Legal privilege and attorney work product The legal privilege or attorne...
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Legal advice privilege in employment
A recent decision in the UK Court of Appeal has provided guidance in the area of privilege in employment claims. In Curless v Shell International Ltd, the Court of Appeal had to consider whether le...
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Legal advice privilege upheld for dissolved companies
The Court of Appeal has confirmed that documents protected by legal advice privilege remain so protected even upon the dissolution of the company to whom the privilege belongs. Once attached, legal...
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Training slides can attract legal professional privilege
The Information Commissioner held that a set of training slides provided to a public authority were not protected by legal advice privilege. However, this decision was overturned by the Tribunal, m...
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Court of Appeal Clarifies Legal Professional Privilege
The Court ruled on the “dominant purpose” test and offered guidance on the status of multiparty emails, and attachments. Two recent Court of Appeal judgments have sought to clarify, and offer pr...
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Legal Professional Privilege: Clarifying the Exceptions
Following closely behind the Jet2 decision (see our note, Court of Appeal Gives Important New Guidance on Legal Advice Privilege), the Court of Appeal has again turned its attention to privilege, t...
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Legal Professional Privilege: The New Status Quo
Legal professional privilege (“LPP”) has been a feature of the common law for centuries, developed through the public interest in protecting confidentiality of communications between a lawyer and i...
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The Cloak of Legal Professional Privilege
The recent judgment in the case of Serious Fraud Office (SFO) v Eurasian Natural Resources Corporation Ltd [2017] EWHC 1017 (QB) is a matter of major concern for companies and those involved in adv...
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Back to the Future – Legal Professional Privilege
Summary - On September 5, 2018, the English Court of Appeal (the Court) issued its decision in The Director of the Serious Fraud Office v Eurasian Natural Resources Corporation Limited [2018] EW...
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