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
Two recent judicial decisions have brought long-standing assumptions about the so-called “Shareholder Rule” under critical scrutiny. In Aabar Holdings S.à.r.l. v Glencore plc & ors, the English High Court held that companies...more
In its decision last year in Aabar Holdings SARL v. Glencore PLC & Others, the High Court handed down a landmark ruling overturning the ‘shareholder rule’, which has been applied to the analysis of legal professional...more
In recent years there has been a trend of beneficiaries exploiting their rights under data protection legislation to gain access to personal data in the trust context, cutting straight through the trustees’ discretion to...more