Sentences with phrase «accountants giving legal advice»

I have not read the unanimous decision closely to see if it might provide any comfort for accountants giving legal advice.

We know that accountants give legal advice every day.

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I am not a lawyer or accountant and am not giving legal advice.

At the same time as the justices in Re A were briefly deliberating, seven justices (Lords Neuberger, Clarke and Reed were common to both constitutions) were addressing the subject of privilege in the context of legal advice (R (Prudential plc and anor) v Special Commissioner of Income Tax [2013] UKSC 1: legal advice privilege does not apply to advice on law given by accountants).

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.

Acting as legal representative for the owner of a property business with a substantial professional negligence claim against the company's former accountants for advice given regarding VAT.

We have established many strong relationships with accountants, IP agents, banks and investors, which helps us to give you not only first - class legal advice but strong business advice.

The Prudential case involved the issue of whether the Prudential could refuse to withhold certain documents on the ground that the documents were covered by legal advice privilege, where the legal advice had been given by accountants in relation to a tax avoidance scheme.

Is there any Canadian law on privilege for legal advice given by accountants, or would a Canadian court be shocked, shocked!

The Court had no problem with the idea that accountants might give legal advice, finding it common in tax matters.