BAe Corruption Row Widens Campaign Against Arms Trade (CAAT) is seeking injunction to force BAe to reveal how it obtained confidential documents, related to application for judicial review of SFO decision to drop inquiry into corruption in Al Yamamah deal 26.01.07 Telegraph, British Aerospace, Corruption
Court Blocks Access to Case Documents Law Society has gained an injunction on release of court documents, new rules will allow open access to documents in civil cases without judicial permission, implementation delayed until full hearing Press Gazette Big media interests are instructing Andrew Caldecott QC to challenge injunction 03.10.06 Press Gazette, Courts, Media Law, Privacy
Roberts Democrats find their focus in demanding documents relating Roberts' work under Bush pere, White House says they are 'confidential legal advice' 29.07.05 NY Times, John G. Roberts Links
Money Laundering EU Council of Bars and Law Societies to campaign against third money laundering directive, fear it will erode professional privilege 22.11.04 Times, Money Laundering Links
Legal Privilege Lords have handed written judgement in Three Rivers case challenging legal privilege, advice to Bank of England in supervision of BCCI, separate case accusing Bank of malfeasance 12.11.04 Judgement, BCCI Case, Law Society
Tax Schemes Revenue has proposed compromise for lawyers to retain client privilege while passing on information about tax avoidance schemes, onus will be on client, legal challenge still possible 07.10.04 Telegraph, UK Tax
Tax Schemes Brown has rejected calls by accountancy profession to delay implementation of law requiring disclosure of tax avoidance schemes, concern that lawyers will retain legal privilege 30.09.04 Telegraph, UK Tax Avoidance Schemes
Applying Legal Privilege It is a fundamental principle of English law that clients should be able to communicate freely with their legal advisors, certain documents and discussions between professional legal advisors and their clients are therefore afforded a special level of protection 30.03.07 Michael Simkins, Employment Law, Privacy
Open Access to Court Documents For court documents filed after 2 October 2006, non-parties have access to any statements of case, including particulars of claim, defences, third party claims and any replies to such documents, rule comes into play once all defendants have filed either an acknowledgment of service or a defence 19.01.07 Eversheds, Courts, Data Protection, Litigation
Defendant Right to Choose Solicitor Law Society is demanding govt drops plans that would deny defendants the right to choose their own solicitor, judges should decide if there is a potential conflict when several defendants are represented by the same solicitor in serious criminal cases 10.10.06 Law Society Press Release, Criminal Justice, Law Society
Document Retention A recent case in the US has again turned the spotlight on the risks faced by a business if it fails to implement an effective document retention policy. Circuit Court Judge Elizabeth Mass became frustrated at defendant Morgan Stanley's repeated failures to provide copies of the bank's e-mails to lawyers representing Ronald Perelman 10.06.05 Eversheds, Capital Markets Links, Tobacco Links
Legal Privilege Lords have handed down their
opinions on legal privilege, in favour of the protection of privilege, although there remain some areas of uncertainty; the vexed issue of 'who is the client' remains unresolved 15.11.04 Law Now
Legal Advice Privilege An important High Court decision relating to the scope of legal advice privilege was held up by the court of appeal: Advice from
lawyers on presentation is not privileged! 04.03.04 Law Now
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