Legal Professional Privilege in UK Law
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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: 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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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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Data subject access requests: proportionality and legal professional privilege
By way of wider context, the parties in Holyoake v. (1) Candy and (2) CPC Group Limited [2017] EWHC 52 (QB), are currently engaged in a multi-million pound dispute relating to a loan agreement. Sep...
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Lawyers Beware: Battle of Legal Professional Privilege of Internal Investigation Continues in England and Wales
Last month, the Court of Appeal of England and Wales granted permission for Eurasian Natural Resources Corp. Ltd. (“ENRC”) to appeal the May 2017 decision by the High Court relating to a dispute ov...
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Law Society practice note on legal professional privilege: call-to-arms or helpful restatement?
This article considers the Law Society practice note on legal professional privilege (LPP) published on 23 February 2017, in the light of public statements by the UK's Serious Fraud Office (SFO) th...
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Comfort and surprise: two English High Court decisions of note concerning legal professional privilege
Two English High Court decisions have addressed separate but important points of principle relevant to the availability and application of English legal professional privilege (“privilege”) which a...
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