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Protecting Digital Legal Professional Privilege (LPP) Data [PDF]
To enable free communication between legal advisor and his client for proper functioning of the legal system, certain documents, known as legal professional privilege (TPP) documents, can be excluded as evidence for prosecution. In physical world, protection of TPP information is well addressed and proper procedure for handling TPP articles has been ...
Pierre K Y Lai +2 more
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Legal professional privilege in corporate criminal investigations
This article considers two areas that arise in the context of corporate criminal investigations relating to claims of legal professional privilege: the extent to which litigation privilege may attach to communications made in the context of such investigations and the difficulty of identifying the client for the purposes of legal advice privilege ...
Stockdale, Michael, Mitchell, Rebecca
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Interception of communications and legal professional privilege and the rule of law [PDF]
Lisa Webley
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Legal Professional Privilege and the Ascertainment of Truth [PDF]
In the last few years the courts have stretched legal professional privilege to the point of a break with the needs of the administration justice. In one case it was held that where a copy was made of a document which was not itself privileged, the copy became privileged because it was brought about for the purpose of submission to counsel.
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Motions in the UK and Scottish Parliaments demanding the publication of legal advice to government from its Law Officers have tested the Law Officers’ Convention that the existence and content of their advice is only disclosed exceptionally. They have demonstrated government relying on the Convention and legal professional privilege (LPP) to resist ...
Rebecca Mitchell, Michael Stockdale
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Proposals for Legal Professional Privilege in EU Competition Investigations
Market and Competition Law Review, v. 6 n. 1 (2022)
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The Crime/Fraud Exception to Legal Professional Privilege [PDF]
Legal professional privilege' used to lie at the heart of the administration of justice in this country. It protected bona fide communications between lawyer and client from disclosure under all circumstances. Thus, it promoted the seeking of legal advice which was thought to be vital if people were to comply with the law, pursue their civil rights ...
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Reporting Tax Schemes Violates Legal Professional Privilege
In this article, the author discusses the judgment of the CJEU in the case C-694/20 Orde van Vlaamse Balies and Others, which extends the protection of professional secrecy for lawyers. In the context of combating aggressive tax planning, the CJEU ruled that requiring licensed lawyers to inform other intermediaries involved in a tax scheme is ...
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LAWYERS’ LEGAL PROFESSIONAL PRIVILEGE IN EUROPE [PDF]
This paper aims at analyzing the professional secrecy of lawyers within European States, both theoretically and practically. The right to defence – the corollary of any real democracy –is unconceivable in the absence of the service provided by lawyers, while the rights and freedoms of people would be seriously damaged were there not a guarantee for ...
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Legal Professional Privilege: Is It Absolute?
Legal Professional Privilege ('LPP') is deeply rooted in the common law and has even been described as a right of a constitutional nature. In the recent decision of the Three Rivers case (2005), Lord Scott described LPP as an 'absolute right', subject only to the well established crime / fraud exception.
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