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NLJ this week: Privilege for whom, and when?

30 September 2022
Issue: 7996 / Categories: Legal News , Profession , Privilege
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When does legal professional privilege apply? That was the nub of the issue in the recent case of Loreley Financing (Jersey) v Credit Suisse. Writing in this week’s NLJ, Rhys Novak and Emilie Brammer look into the details of the case and assess the two-stage test set out by the High Court.

The case raised issues as to ‘whether litigation privilege can apply to communications between a lawyer and client, despite the fact that legal advice privilege also applies in such circumstances’, they write.

Novak and Brammer note that ‘this case provides a stark reminder that, while the identity of instructing individuals may be privileged in some circumstances, those situations are likely to be rare. Efforts to argue for a broader application of litigation privilege—on the basis that the identity of those providing instructions should always be protected as falling within a ‘zone of privacy’—has been firmly rejected’.

Read the full discussion of this informative case here.
Issue: 7996 / Categories: Legal News , Profession , Privilege
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