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Access To UK Company Privileged Documents By Former Directors

In the High Court’s decision in Serendipity Centre Ltd v. Tinson, [2026] EWHC 349 (Ch), the court held that privilege could not be asserted against a former director over certain documents...

United Kingdom Litigation

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Goodwin Procter LLP

High Court Finds Company Could Not Assert Privilege Against Former Director Over Legal Advice She Had Seen At The Time

In a dispute between a company and its former director regarding repayment of a loan, the High Court has held that the company could not withhold its privileged legal advice...

United Kingdom Commercial

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Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer LLP

Parallel Civil Litigation: The UK Perspective

Corporates that are subject to investigations increasingly face civil litigation based on the same or similar issues under investigation.

United Kingdom Commercial

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Travers Smith LLP

No change for in-house lawyers' EU legal privilege status

On 10 November 2025 the EU Commission published a Competition Policy Brief discussing whether EU legal professional privilege (EU LPP) in competition law investigations should extend to in-house lawyers.

United Kingdom Anti-trust

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Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer LLP

The Fall Of The Shareholder Rule: What The Jardine Case Means For Corporate Governance

United Kingdom Commercial

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Spencer West

End Of An Era: The Death Of The Shareholder Rule

United Kingdom Commercial

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Gatehouse Chambers

The Emperor Never Had Any Clothes: The Privy Council Abandons The Shareholder Rule

United Kingdom Commercial

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Macfarlanes LLP

Commercial Litigation Podcast Series – Episode 32: General Update (Podcast)

United Kingdom Commercial

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Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer LLP

Corporate Energy Transition Team Advises The Founders Of Island Green Power On The Sale Of Their Remaining Interest To Macquarie Asset Management

United Kingdom Energy

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Gowling WLG

Need To Know: Information Notices And Privilege

United Kingdom Tax

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Macfarlanes LLP

Shareholder Privileges: Is The Relationship Between Shareholder And Company As Closely Aligned As It Once Was?

United Kingdom Commercial

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Shepherd and Wedderburn LLP

Privilege In Corporate Disputes: There Is No "Shareholder Rule"

United Kingdom Commercial

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Macfarlanes LLP

Shareholder Rule's KO! Companies Can Claim Privilege Against Shareholders

United Kingdom Commercial

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Gowling WLG

Reforming Carried Interest

United Kingdom Tax

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Macfarlanes LLP

Travers Smith's Sustainability Insights: Reporting Requirements Still Shifting

United Kingdom Commercial

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Travers Smith LLP

Investing In The Defense Sector: Procurement, Sanctions, And ESG (Podcast)

United Kingdom Government

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A&O Shearman

Understanding The New Non-Financial Misconduct Rule: What Should Legal, HR And Compliance Teams Be Thinking About Now?

United Kingdom Employment

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Gowling WLG

Navigating Reputational Risk In Family Offices (Video)

United Kingdom Privacy

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Withers LLP

The IP Driven Start-up Podcast | From Lab To Market - The Real Story Of Commercialising University Research

United Kingdom IP

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Marks & Clerk

The Space: Leadership And Law - Episode Six (Podcast)

We're back with another episode in The Space!...

United Kingdom Law Practice

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Gowling WLG

When Are Redactions Reasonable?

The long-running investigation by the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) into Eurasian Natural Resources Corporation (ENRC) has provided several points of instructive guidance during its lifetime...

European Union Commercial

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Cooley LLP

Commercial Litigation Round-Up – August 2023

We have collated a brief round-up of important recent cases, procedural developments and hot topics for businesses to help busy in-house counsel keep up to date...

United Kingdom Commercial

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Norton Rose Fulbright

The University Of Dundee v Chakraborty: Internal Investigations And Privilege

In The University of Dundee v Chakraborty [2023] CISH 22, the Scottish Court of Session considered the privilege status of an early unpublished version of an internal investigation report...

United Kingdom Commercial

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Travers Smith LLP

Look A Mile Beyond Your Business

United Kingdom Commercial

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Gunnercooke

FRC 3-Year Plan: What It Means For Supervisory Intervention And Enforcement

United Kingdom Accounting

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Norton Rose Fulbright

Commercial Litigation Podcast Series – Episode 19: General Update

United Kingdom Litigation

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Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer LLP

Litigation Privilege Not Restricted To Parties To Litigation, And Other Helpful Points Regarding Privilege

United Kingdom Commercial

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Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer LLP

Privy Council On Without Prejudice Privilege

United Kingdom Litigation

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Fenwick Elliott LLP

Supreme Court Punts On Attorney-Client Privilege Question

United Kingdom Tax

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McDermott Will & Emery

Privilege: Privacy And Confidentiality Are Not To Be Equated

United Kingdom Litigation

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Cooley LLP

Court Of Appeal Confirms Identity Of Those Instructing Lawyers Not Generally Protected By Litigation Privilege

United Kingdom Litigation

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Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer LLP

Can The Identity Of Those Instructing Lawyers Be Protected By Litigation Privilege?

United Kingdom Commercial

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Norton Rose Fulbright

Webinar: Recent Global Private Capital Developments From A Channel Islands Perspective

Worldwide Wealth Mgt

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Mourant

Privilege: Privacy And Confidentiality Are Not To Be Equated

In Jinxin Inc v Aser Media PTE Ltd & Others[1], the High Court of England and Wales determined that directors' personal emails and documents on a company's computer system were confidential...

United Kingdom Litigation

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Cooley LLP

Court Of Appeal Confirms Identity Of Those Instructing Lawyers Not Generally Protected By Litigation Privilege

The Court of Appeal has held that the identity of those instructing lawyers on behalf of a corporate client are not generally protected by litigation privilege...

United Kingdom Litigation

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Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer LLP

Can The Identity Of Those Instructing Lawyers Be Protected By Litigation Privilege?

A recent decision by the High Court provides clarity on whether those instructing solicitors benefit from litigation privilege. In Loreley Financing (Jersey) No 30 Ltd v Credit Suisse Securities (Europe)...

United Kingdom Commercial

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Norton Rose Fulbright

Webinar: Recent Global Private Capital Developments From A Channel Islands Perspective

Mourant host this Mondaq webinar discussing: 'Recent Global Private Capital Developments from a Channel Islands Perspective'.

Worldwide Wealth Mgt

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Mourant

Hunt V Annolight Ltd & Ors [2021] EWCA Civ 1663 (10 November 2021) 21 October 2021

United Kingdom Litigation

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Gatehouse Chambers

Function Over Formal Qualifications: Legal Advice Privilege Upheld For In-house Lawyers In Foreign Jurisdictions

The High Court has rejected a specific disclosure application by ruling that legal advice privilege can apply to communications with unqualified in-house 'lawyers' based in foreign jurisdictions in the same way that it does ...

United Kingdom Commercial

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Clyde & Co

Comfort And Surprise: Two English High Court Decisions Of Note Concerning Legal Professional Privilege

Two English High Court decisions have addressed separate but important points of principle relevant to the availability and application of English legal professional privilege ("privilege")...

United Kingdom Accounting

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WilmerHale

Disclosing Party To Determine Privilege

As part of a regulatory investigation, the FRC issued a statutory notice requiring an auditor, which was the subject of the investigation, to produce papers, including those regarding its client's business.

United Kingdom Employment

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Mayer Brown

PCP V Barclays: Waiving Goodbye To Your Privilege

So the notion that a reference to the effect of privileged advice will not amount to a waiver, whereas a reference to its content will, has been debunked.

United Kingdom Commercial

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Clyde & Co

Waiver Of Privilege In Family Proceedings

United Kingdom Insolvency

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Charles Russell Speechlys LLP

Maintaining Legal Advice Privilege In England And Wales: Don't Let Bad Habits Creep Into ‘New Normal'

United Kingdom Litigation

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Cooley LLP

Litigation Privilege: When Is A Document "deployed" In A Witness Statement?

United Kingdom Litigation

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Mayer Brown

When In Doubt Keep It Out? When Is It Safe To Refer To Privileged Documents?

United Kingdom Commercial

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Clyde & Co

UK Court Of Appeal Finds That Privilege Affords Protection Against Regulators' Requests For Documents Unless Overriden By Statute

United Kingdom Commercial

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Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP

English Court Of Appeal Clarifies The Scope Of Legal Advice Privilege

United Kingdom Litigation

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Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

Court Clarifies When Confidentiality And Privilege Can Be Lost Over A Document Referred To In Open Court

United Kingdom Litigation

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DLA Piper UK LLP

Privilege - Court Of Appeal Restricts Ambit Of Legal Advice Privilege

United Kingdom Commercial

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Gowling WLG

Royal Mail Stamped A First Class Penalty – Advice From Economic Advisers Is Not Privileged

United Kingdom Anti-trust

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Shepherd and Wedderburn LLP

Legal Advice Privilege – Where We Are Now?

United Kingdom Employment

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Clyde & Co

Once Privileged Always Privileged? English Court Of Appeal Rules That Documents Remain Privileged Even After Company Is Dissolved

United Kingdom Commercial

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Mayer Brown

Court Of Appeal Confirms "Once Privileged, Always Privileged" Unless Privileged Is Waived – Even If There Is No Longer Anyone Who Can Assert The Privilege

United Kingdom Commercial

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Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer LLP

Court Of Appeal Confirms Privilege Never Dies

United Kingdom Litigation

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Clyde & Co

UK Serious Fraud Office Publishes Corporate Co-Operation Guidance

United Kingdom Criminal

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Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP

The UK Serious Fraud Office's Latest Guidance On Corporate Co-Operation – Great Expectations Fulfilled Or Left Asking For More?

United Kingdom Criminal

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Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher

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