‘The High Court has confirmed that legal privilege can apply to investigations on the right set of facts, restoring some certainty to a position that has been up for debate since May 2017.’
OUT-LAW.com, 5th February 2018
Source: www.out-law.com
‘The High Court has refused both sides permission to inspect other parties’ documents ahead of a high profile £126m civil case over inflated credit hire charges.’
Law Society Gazette, 16th January 2018
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
‘Dispute Resolution analysis: When is it appropriate to waive privilege during the course of civil proceedings, and what are the risks if you do? These questions regularly create difficulties for litigators, and a variant of them arose during the trial of Holyoake v Candy. Roger Stewart QC, of 4 New Square, Richard Fowler, of Maitland Chambers, and John Beresford, of Hardwicke Chambers, who appeared for the claimants, examine the issues and say being able to advise with reasonable assurance as to the scope of any collateral waiver will be key to the decision on whether privilege ought to be intentionally waived.’
Hardwicke Chambers, 5th December 2017
Source: www.hardwicke.co.uk
‘An attempt by a former councillor to have Thanet District Council disclose legal advice obtained from law firm Trowers & Hamlins in relation to the operator chosen for the Dreamland Amusement Park has failed.’
Local Government Lawyer, 22nd November 2017
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
‘The High Court has granted an injunction restraining a former in-house solicitor from acting in proceedings against her former employer, saying that even if she was aware of the danger of disclosing confidential information, she might still subconsciously use it.’
Legal Futures, 30th October 2017
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘A member of the public has failed in a bid to force Liverpool City Council to disclose the legal advice behind its decision to pay the costs incurred by elected mayor Joe Anderson in an unfair dismissal case.’
Local Government Lawyer, 25th October 2017
Source: localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
‘On Tuesday 10th October, 5RB held a panel discussion to review the recent Court of Appeal decision in Lachaux v Independent Print Ltd, Evening Standard Ltd, AOL (UK) Ltd. and its ramifications for the serious harm threshold.’
5RB, 19th October 2017
Source: www.5rb.com
‘The High Court has granted an injunction against a party that was well aware that a document it was using was a privileged letter accidentally disclosed by the other side.’
Litigation Futures, 22nd August 2017
Source: www.litigationfutures.com
‘Lawyers are among those who could face prosecution if they fail to report information that could undermine UK financial sanctions, after a change to the law that came into force this week.’
Legal Futures, 10th August 2017
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘Litigators should sort out the inadvertent disclosure of privileged documents in a grown-up manner without taking up the time of the court, the Court of Appeal has ruled as it granted an order to delete a privileged email that had been accidentally handed over.’
Litigation Futures, 20th July 2017
Source: www.litigationfutures.com
‘A piece of legislation that UK law makers must pass so that the country can ratify a new Unified Patent Court (UPC) system in Europe has been laid before parliament.’
OUT-LAW.com, 26th June 2017
Source: www.out-law.com
‘The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) is to press ahead with allowing practising solicitors to deliver unreserved services to the public from unregulated organisations, as part of a radical shake-up of the way it oversees the profession.’
Legal Futures, 13th June 2017
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘Erosion of privilege—are we at the thin end of the wedge, asks David Owen.’
New Law Journal, 19th May 2017
Source: www.newlawjournal.co.uk
‘Companies can no longer assume that private documents, including interview records used for internal investigations, will be protected after a High Court ruling this week, lawyers have claimed.’
Law Society’s Gazette, 10th May 2017
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
‘The High Court has rejected a mining company’s claim for litigation privilege in a test case which for the first time involves potential criminal, rather than civil, litigation.’
Litigation Futures, 10th May 2017
Source: www.litigationfutures.com
‘That mediation proceedings are confidential is taken as axiomatic. What is said and done in the course of a mediation remains there. The same goes for documents of whatever kind, and their contents, created for the purposes of the mediation. In the above case Master Howarth appears to have qualified these propositions to some extent.’
Garden Court Chambers, 31st January 2017
Source: www.gardencourtmediation.co.uk
‘Law firms must comply with data requests even if the purpose for seeking the documents is “assisting in litigation”, the Court of Appeal has ruled.’
Legal Futures, 22nd February 2017
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘The Court of Appeal has ordered international firm Taylor Wessing to comply with an application for information it held about parties embarking on litigation despite the firm’s claim that the data was covered by legal professional privilege.’
Law Society’s Gazette, February 2017
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
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