legal professional privilege

There are also protections for information subject to legal professional privilege.

Confidentiality is a prerequisite for legal professional privilege to hold.

The common law maintains a distinction between two limbs of legal professional privilege.

There are exceptions in respect of legal professional privilege and banking confidentiality.

Legal professional privilege may be waived unilaterally by the client.

The common law principle of legal professional privilege is of extremely long standing.

One of these rights is legal professional privilege.

Legal professional privilege has been described as an "important common law right" that is enforceable in equity.

The defendants objected to disclosure on ground that it was protected by legal professional privilege.

It is not covered by legal professional privilege.

The Act extends legal professional privilege to authorised persons other than barristers and solicitors (s. 190).

Legal professional privilege: Common Law general concept and history.

The papers were entitled to legal professional privilege.

How far can legal professional privilege go?

In England and Wales, the principle of legal professional privilege has long been recognised by the common law.

The obligation of confidence is of wider ambit than legal professional privilege.

There are two forms of legal professional privilege:

In England and Wales, the rules on legal professional privilege are set out in common law.

Legal professional privilege in Australia developed from the English common law privilege.

However, the common law privilege remains almost universally described by courts as being 'legal professional privilege'.

Legal professional privilege in Australia is found in common law and in various statutes.

Legal professional privilege is not absolute and it does not attach to a communication indefinitely.

In Egan v Chadwick, this power was found to be not limited by legal professional privilege.

Full details are given in Legal professional privilege (England & Wales).

A person cannot be ordered to give oral information (s.11) nor information in breach of legal professional privilege (s.12).