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Legal Privilege - the King has been advised - the Shareholder Rule no longer applies under English Law

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Yesterday in a landmark decision, Jardine Strategic Limited v Oasis Investments II Master Fund Ltd and others, the Privy Council, on appeal from Bermuda’s Court of Appeal, has changed the law....more

Array

This Week in eDiscovery: EDRM Guidelines for GDPR Compliance, What Information is Enough for a Privilege Log, and More

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Every week, the Array team reviews the latest news and analysis about the evolving field of eDiscovery to bring you the topics and trends you need to know. This week’s post covers the week of April 1-7. Here’s what’s...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP

The Privilege Is Ours…And Theirs; English High Court Clarifies Rules On Legal Advice Privilege For Foreign Lawyers

A recent English High Court decision has provided clarity on the scope of legal advice privilege as it relates to foreign lawyers. Background- The English High Court’s decision in PJSC Tatneft v Bogolyubov and others [2020]...more

Dorsey & Whitney LLP

UK High Court Considers What Amounts to a Waiver of Privilege in Recent Case

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On 1 June 2020, the High Court found that, by using references to their lawyers’ legal advice in support of its case that the transactions that formed the subject matter of the application were lawful, a bank had waived...more

Hogan Lovells

Privilege overview (UPDATED)

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Any recorded communication (for example: emails, recorded phone conversations (including voicemails), letters, memoranda, computer records etc) may have to be produced to the other party in litigation or other adversarial...more

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English Court of Appeal Considers Test for Legal Advice Privilege

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In Civil Aviation Authority v. R (on the Application of Jet2.com Ltd.), the English Court of Appeal clarified the test for legal advice privilege, confirming the need to show that the dominant purpose of the relevant...more

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Legal advice privilege upheld for dissolved companies

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The Court of Appeal has confirmed that documents protected by legal advice privilege remain so protected even upon the dissolution of the company to whom the privilege belongs. Once attached, legal advice privilege exists...more

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