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Legal Privilege – Decision hints privilege should be expanded

April 2013
Sarah Conroy

Legal advice privilege has traditionally been restricted to confidential communications between a client and a lawyer in connection with the giving of legal advice and entitles the client to refuse to disclose (and to have his lawyer refuse to disclose) those communications. A recent decision of the uk supreme court appears to suggest that legislation could extend this privilege to cover advice given by professional accountants, as Sarah Conroy explains.

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