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“Shareholder Rule” Snuffed Out: Practical Implications for UK Companies and Shareholders

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When a client seeks legal advice from a lawyer, the confidential communications between them, which are made for the sole or dominant purpose of seeking and receiving legal advice, are protected by legal professional...more

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UK HR Two Minute Monthly - September 2021

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Legal professional privilege, litigation advice privilege, iniquitous principle, unfair dismissal, right to appeal, unlawful protection from wages claim, income protection payments - EAT concludes that an email sent prior...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP

International Tax Disputes Insights Newsletter (Spring 2021)

Our inaugural issue focuses on a truly transnational and important rule of law: the attorney-client privilege and related protections against disclosure. While this is a topic common to all areas of law, the tax arena at...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Cross-Border Investigations Update - January 2019

This issue of Skadden’s semiannual Cross-Border Investigations Update takes a close look at recent cases, regulatory activity and other key developments, including DOJ guidance on the use of corporate monitors in criminal...more

Latham & Watkins LLP

English Appellate Court Restricts Scope of Litigation Privilege

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Litigation privilege and the circumstances in which courts will inspect documents over which privilege has been claimed. In a significant decision, the English Court of Appeal has restricted the scope of litigation...more

Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer

UK Court of Appeal Extends Privilege in Internal Investigations

Brief Comments on The Director of the Serious Fraud Office v. Eurasian Natural Resources Corporation Limited [2018] EWCA Civ 2006 - On Sept. 5, 2018, the Court of Appeal of England and Wales handed down a unanimous...more

A&O Shearman

privilege after SFO v ENRC – Bilta and Jukes

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In two recent decisions, the English courts have grappled with the application of litigation privilege in the wake of Andrews J’s decision in SFO v ENRC. In Bilta v RBS, the court upheld a claim to litigation privilege over...more

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UK Court of Appeal Grants ENRC Permission to Appeal Widely Criticised Privilege Ruling - and Law Society Seeks to Intervene

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On October 11, 2017, Eurasian Natural Resources Corporation was granted permission by the Court of Appeal to appeal the High Court's ruling articulating a significant restriction on the scope of legal professional privilege...more

Hogan Lovells

Privilege Overview

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Any recorded communication (for example: e-mails, recorded phone conversations (including voicemails), letters, memoranda, computer records etc) may have to be produced to the other party in a subsequent legal dispute or...more

Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP

Who is the Client for the Purposes of Legal Advice Privilege? English High Court Confirms Narrow Scope of Legal Advice Privilege

A recent decision out of the English High Court narrows the scope of the legal advice privilege, which will have important implications for US companies that have ties to the UK. ...more

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