Legal Privilege in UK Law
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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...
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Professional secrecy and legal professional privilege
Legal privilege and professional secrecy of attorneys relate to the right to a fair trial (Article 6 European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR)) as well as to the right to respect for private and f...
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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...
- Legal Professional Privilege
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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 Privilege in Criminal Cases Generally, and Money‐Laundering Cases in Particular
Significant problems arise where an investigating authority searches premises for relevant material and the holder of the material asserts a claim of legal privilege over some, if not all, of the d...
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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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The Right to Silence and Legal Professional Privilege
The recent Blue Arrow and Maxwell cases have highlighted the extremely wide‐ranging powers of investigation and inquiry vested in regulatory authorities such as the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) and t...
- Review: Legal Professional Privilege: Law & Theory
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