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Legal privilege: When does legal advice lose its confidential status?
The EAT appears to have widened the range of situations in which employers might lose legal advice privilege, reports Ben Daniel ‘As a baseline principle, it would be wise to steer clear of any narrative which could be viewed as underhand or deceitful on the available facts.’ Legal advice given by a lawyer to a …
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- Serious Fraud Office (SFO) v Eurasian Natural Resources Corporation Ltd [2017] EWHC 1017 (QB); [2018] EWCA Civ 2006
- X v Y Ltd [2018] UKEAT/0261/17