Legal professional privilege

This subtopic contains guidance and a Precedent which relate to legal professional privilege (LPP). It looks at LPP in the context of the client-solicitor relationship. It considers who the privilege belongs to generally, the disclosure exercise, how to protect the client's confidential material and information from being inspected by the other parties and/or from being put before the court, who it belongs to in any subsequent litigation and whether a former client

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