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<nowiki>***</nowiki>[[PRIVILEGED AND CONFIDENTIAL ATTORNEY WORK PRODUCT]]<nowiki>***</nowiki> | {{a|email|}}<nowiki>***</nowiki>[[PRIVILEGED AND CONFIDENTIAL ATTORNEY WORK PRODUCT]]<nowiki>***</nowiki> | ||
====Be ''very'' careful==== | |||
First thing: even if you are a [[Private practice lawyer|private practice]] [[litigation]] lawyer, assuming that [[litigation privilege]] will always apply and that you can say what you like in correspondence concerning litigation, is a bad idea. If your client is guilted into waiving privilege, your cavalier statements might be broadcast live on the BBC. Just ask Amy Prime, a litigation trainee from Womble Bond Dickinson, who sent this to her clients at the Post Office: | |||
{{quote|“For now, we’ll do what we can to avoid disclosure of these guidelines and try to do so in a way that looks legitimate. However, we are ultimately withholding a key document, and this may attract some criticism from Freeths. If you disagree with this approach, do let me know. Otherwise, we’ll adopt this approach until such time as we sense the criticism is becoming serious.”}} | |||
====Inhouse legal eagles==== | |||
On the subject of [[legal advice privilege]] — or for that matter [[litigation privilege]] attaching to communications to or from your [[Legal Eagles|internal legal team]]: | On the subject of [[legal advice privilege]] — or for that matter [[litigation privilege]] attaching to communications to or from your [[Legal Eagles|internal legal team]]: | ||
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*'''{{t|Litigation privilege}}''' is a more powerful, deeper magic, but communications must be sent with the “sole or dominant purpose of preparing for contemplated litigation”, and “litigation” doesn’t include regulatory investigations, commissions of inquiry or the proceedings of a regulator. | *'''{{t|Litigation privilege}}''' is a more powerful, deeper magic, but communications must be sent with the “sole or dominant purpose of preparing for contemplated litigation”, and “litigation” doesn’t include regulatory investigations, commissions of inquiry or the proceedings of a regulator. | ||
In the Court of Appeal they took a different view. | In the Court of Appeal, they took a different view. | ||
{{sa}} | {{sa}} | ||
*[[Embarrassing emails]] | |||
*{{casenote1|RBS Rights Issue Litigation}} | *{{casenote1|RBS Rights Issue Litigation}} | ||
*{{casenote1|Three Rivers No. 5}} | *{{casenote1|Three Rivers No. 5}} | ||
*{{casenote|SFO|ENRC}} | *{{casenote|SFO|ENRC}} | ||