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Privilege: Ever-decreasing circles
Gwendoline Davies, Andrew Northage and Robert Starr assess the impact of a recent ruling on legal professional privilege ‘There are important public policy justifications underpinning privilege, such as the need for clients to be able to candidly disclose matters to their lawyers.’ A recent High Court ruling is the latest in a line of cases …
Cases Referenced
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- R (Prudential plc) v Special Commissioner of Income Tax [2010] EWCA Civ 1094; [2013] UKSC 1
- Serious Fraud Office (SFO) v Eurasian Natural Resources Corporation Ltd [2017] EWHC 1017 (QB); [2018] EWCA Civ 2006
- The RBS Rights Issue Litigation [2016] EWHC 3161 (Ch); [2017] EWHC 1217 (Ch)
- Three Rivers District Council v Bank of England (No 6) [2003] EWCA Civ 474; [2004] UKHL 48