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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
Legal professional privilege is a key issue in any litigation or investigation and each year the courts determine many disputes over its application. It can become less straightforward to manage and protect in multi-party or...more
In December 2022, the Court of Justice of the European Union (“CJEU”) made a preliminary ruling which will herald a significant, and welcome, impact on the treatment of lawyer-client communications by the EU courts. The...more
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
High Court holds that English law legal advice privilege can extend to such communications regardless of whether or not the lawyers are in-house practitioners. In PJSC Tatneft v Gennady Bogolyubov & Ors.,[i] the English...more
The Director of the UK Serious Fraud Office (SFO), Lisa Osofsky, has promised to provide companies with concrete guidance on cooperation with the SFO. Based on her recent comments, this guidance is likely to encourage...more
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
Emails between an in-house counsel and an employee, gathering information to provide to external lawyers, were not protected by legal advice privilege. The decision illustrates (a) how difficult it will be for internal fact...more
Legal advice privilege attaches not just to those communications between lawyer and client which have as their purpose the giving or receiving of legal advice, but also extends to material which “evidences” the substance of...more
One of the most problematic questions facing companies simultaneously undergoing a review by external counsel and responding to a government inquiry is whether the information shared with or created by counsel will be...more
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
As we implement the Eversheds Sutherland combination and expand our ability to serve clients around the globe, our US and international teams are working together to analyze issues impacting clients doing business in multiple...more
In a recent opinion issued in the matter of Certain Underwriters at Lloyd's London v. Nat'l R.R. Passenger Corp., No. 14-CV-04717 FB CLP (E.D.N.Y. Feb. 19, 2016), the Eastern District of New York held that communications from...more
On 27 January, the Divisional Court in R (McKenzie) v Director of the Serious Fraud Office [2016] EWHC 102 (Admin) confirmed the lawfulness of the SFO’s procedures for dealing with material potentially subject to legal...more