Sentences with phrase «legal privilege attaches»

Legal privilege attaches to any advice provided by outside counsel.

Not exact matches

Legal privilege will not attach to what is said and written in the course of the basis and advances schemes.

Mediators like accountants plainly fall outside the protection of legal professional privilege, which attaches to communications between lawyers and their clients by virtue of the status of the lawyer as such, rather than merely because a person is giving legal advice.

In the context of a commercial transaction, common interest privilege allows parties to share privileged information (e.g., legal opinions) without waiving the privilege that otherwise attaches to that information, provided that:

The tangible legal benefit to a party of negotiations being without prejudice is equally well understood: subject to certain exceptions, privilege attaches to the content of those negotiations rendering the contents wholly inadmissible.

• As you become increasingly involved in developing business solutions and making business decisions, you need to practise identifying and separating legal from business advice, as privilege will not attach to the latter.

Where litigation is in reasonable contemplation, litigation privilege will attach to material that forms part of the continuum of the lawyer — client communications even where those documents do not expressly seek or convey legal advice.

Therefore, litigation privilege will only attach if the communications are made because of existing or contemplated litigation, and not just to provide general legal advice.

In the United States there is a practical refinement: where for a particular exercise members of the internal audit team are designated as working under the direction and control of the legal department, as its agent, for the purpose of providing expert assistance to the legal department in rendering legal advice to management then privilege will attach to their communication.25 In the United Kingdom this may be theoretically possible in circumstances where the audit team forms part of a working group under the control of a legal counsel or team, yet the very distinct role differentiation between audit and legal functions in UK corporate governance makes this a hard argument to sustain.

So, the best practice would be not to use the dictation feature on an iPhone 4s for any dictated information to which you intend legal privilege to attach.

Law firms, like any other business, may consult internal counsel as they would outside counsel, and privilege attaches to legal advice or a request for legal advice which is intended to be confidential.