English High Court And Narrowing Scope Of Legal Privilege
Law360, New York (March 29, 2017, 12:16 PM EDT) -- When it comes to communications between lawyers and clients or third parties, English law acknowledges the importance of protecting the relationship of confidentiality between lawyer and client by recognizing two broad categories of legal professional privilege; legal advice privilege and litigation privilege. Legal advice privilege protects communications between a client and their lawyer which have the sole or dominant purpose of the giving or receiving of legal advice. Litigation privilege protects communications (between lawyer and client or lawyer and third party) which take place for the sole or dominant purpose of actual or contemplated litigation being pursued or defended by a lawyer on behalf of their client....
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