A Consolidated Update of Legal Professional Privilege
04/08/2014
This talk sets out to provide a brief review of the law surrounding legal professional privilege. This talk is subdivided into nine (9) parts.
In English law legal professional privilege is a substantive common law and human right that confers a form of protection over certain confidential communications made between a professional legal adviser and his client and/or third party.
The protection afforded to communications within the scope of legal professional privilege is divided into two categories.