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Privilege: Litigation privilege – the dominance matrix
Clare Arthurs and Phillip D’Costa find out about recent developments in privilege ‘Tchenguiz provides some useful guidance as to how litigation privilege will be applied by the courts.’ Legal professional privilege attracts its fair share of judicial and public attention. Broadly speaking, it protects confidential communications between a lawyer and client from disclosure, in order …
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- R (Prudential plc) v Special Commissioner of Income Tax [2010] EWCA Civ 1094; [2013] UKSC 1
- Tchenguiz v Serious Fraud Office [2012] EWHC 2254 (Admin); [2013] EWHC 2297 (QB)
- Three Rivers District Council v Bank of England (No 6) [2003] EWCA Civ 474; [2004] UKHL 48
- USA v Philip Morris Inc [2003] EWHC 3028 (Comm); [2004] EWCA Civ 330
- Waugh v British Railways Board [1979] UKHL 2
- West London Pipeline and Storage Ltd & anor v Total UK Ltd & ors [2008] EWHC 1729
- Westminster International BV & ors v Dornoch Ltd & ors [2009] EWCA Civ 1323