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Article published - Pilot of new disclosure rules: a change for the better?
Julian Copeman and Maura McIntosh have published an article in PLC Magazine looking at the new disclosure rules that are due to be piloted in …
Court of Appeal decision in ENRC: orthodoxy restored on litigation privilege, but narrow interpretation of "client" remains for now
The Court of Appeal has today handed down its eagerly awaited decision in the ENRC appeal: The Director of the Serious Fraud Office v Eurasian …
No privilege for advice on how to "cloak" dismissal on basis of discrimination as dismissal for redundancy
In a recent decision, the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) found that an email containing advice from an in-house lawyer was not protected by privilege …
Two-year pilot of new disclosure rules to commence 1 January 2019
New rules to govern disclosure of documents in litigation before the English courts were unveiled yesterday, having been approved by the Civil Procedure …
Two recent decisions consider application of principle of limited waiver of privilege
In two recent decisions, the High Court has considered the extent to which a party can provide privileged documents to a third party for a particular …
A reminder that inadvertent disclosure of privileged material will not engage the cherry picking rule
The Administrative Court has held that a defendant did not lose privilege in unredacted passages of documents that had been provided for inspection, as …
Commercial Court finds non-party not entitled to assert litigation privilege
The Commercial Court has held that a non-party who controlled litigation was not entitled to assert litigation privilege against the party it was …
Court of Appeal finds that factual information received by solicitor in course of acting for client was not privileged
In a recent decision, the Court of Appeal held that a solicitor could not object on grounds of privilege to giving evidence, where the questions related …
High Court decision supports orthodox view of litigation privilege
The High Court has found that documents prepared by the defendant in the course of an investigation into allegations by HMRC were protected by litigation …
High Court finds privilege applies to documents from which the substance of legal advice can be inferred
In a recent decision, the High Court has considered the question of when a document will be privileged on the basis that it "evidences" a privileged …
Hong Kong corporate crime team publishes article addressing the thorny issue of privilege in Asia investigations
Given the variety of civil law and common law systems across Asia, and the fact that corporate investigations in the region almost always involve …
Working group proposes pilot of new rules for disclosure
A disclosure working group set up last year, chaired by Lady Justice Gloster, yesterday published its proposals for reforms to the rules governing …
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