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Does privilege apply to advice from non-legal professions?

  • Mayer Brown LLP
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • April 22 2013

In a recent English Judgment concerning R (Prudential Plc and another) v. Special Commissioner of Income Tax and another 2013 UKSC 1, the Supreme

UKSC declines to extend privilege to legal advice given by non-lawyers

  • Borden Ladner Gervais LLP
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • March 19 2013

Not a surprising result, but a significant decision. PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) devised a tax avoidance scheme, which the Prudential group of

Tax accountant advice does not attract solicitor client privilege in the UK

  • Thorsteinssons LLP
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • February 21 2013

Subject to limited exceptions, communications involving legal advice between a lawyer and his or her client are privileged. As a result, a client can

Scoping out legal advice privilege

  • Bedell Cristin
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • February 5 2013

The Supreme Court has now given its judgment on the eagerly awaited appeal by Prudential regarding whether or not legal advice privilege should be

UK Supreme Court maintains status quo regarding the application

  • Winston & Strawn LLP
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • January 29 2013

On 23 January 2013, the UK Supreme Court handed down a judgment which dismissed (by a majority of 5 to 2) the latest attempt to extend the application

LPP: naked self interest replaced by functionality?

  • Nabarro LLP
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • January 29 2013

In a landmark decision involving the great and the good of the legal world, the Supreme Court has confirmed that legal professional privilege (LPP

Tax advice given by accountants not protected by privilege

  • Bennett Jones LLP
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • January 24 2013

Legal advice privilege applies only to lawyers and does not extend to tax advice provided by accountants, the United Kingdom Supreme Court (formerly

Be prudent with privilege: Legal advice from non-lawyers is not privileged under English and Bermuda Law

  • Sedgwick LLP
  • -
  • Bermuda, United Kingdom
  • -
  • January 23 2013

In its first major judgment of 2013, R (on the application of Prudential plc and another) v Special Commissioner of Income Tax and another 2013

BLG Monthly Update

  • Borden Ladner Gervais LLP
  • -
  • Argentina, Australia, Canada, United Kingdom, USA
  • -
  • December 19 2012

The BLG Monthly Update is a digest of recent developments in the law which Neil Guthrie, our National Director of Research, thinks you will find

Taxpayer narrowly wins privilege case

  • Thorsteinssons LLP
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • December 2 2012

In MNR v. Grant Thornton and Foremost Industries, the taxpayer successfully asserted solicitor-client privilege (Privilege) over documents inadvertently disclosed to its accounting firm

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