The Shareholder Rule is a legal doctrine under which a company is generally precluded from asserting legal professional privilege to withhold documents from a shareholder in the course of litigation involving both the company...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