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In-House Counsel Masterclass:The CPD Regulatory Hour
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Welcome
Declan Black
Managing PartnerMason Hayes & Curran
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Introduction
• Guide to Good Professional Conduct for Solicitors
• Chapter 4 – Legal Professional Privilege & Confidentiality
• Flyer
• Q&A
• Conversation not over!
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What does the Guide tell us?
• Describes LPP rule
• Solicitor’s duty of confidence wider than LPP
• “Fundamental feature” of administration of justice
• Remember to assert LPP, including in AML and Tax
contexts
• LPP can be lost or waived
• Exceptions to LPP
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Fundamental Feature of Administration of Justice
• “… more than a mere rule of evidence…a fundamental
condition on which the administration of justice as a whole
rests.”
• Why?
• Rooted in balance of public interests
• Adversarial system
• Always a context
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Confidentiality vs LPP
• Solicitor’s duty of confidence has wider coverage than LPP
• All privileged communications are confidential
• Not all confidential communications are privileged
• Context determines maintainability of DOC
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What is covered by LPP?
• 2 limbs to LPP rule
• Legal advice privilege
• Litigation privilege
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Elements of Legal Advice Privilege
• Confidential
• Communications
• Between client and professional legal adviser
• In course of professional legal relationship
• For purpose of seeking or giving legal advice
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Elements of Litigation Privilege
• Confidential
• Communications
• Between
• client and lawyer
• lawyer and third party
• client and third party
• With dominant purpose of preparing for reasonably
apprehended or actual litigation
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LPP can be Lost or Waived
• Loss
• Waiver – express or implied; partial or whole
• Avoiding implicit waiver
• Common interest
• Implicit waiver not lightly found, but can happen:
• Deploying contents in pleadings; affidavits/evidence
• Putting contents in issue
• Sending to adversary
• Inadvertent disclosure
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Exceptions to LPP
• Where balance of public interests changes
• Communications
• In furtherance of crime, fraud or “moral turpitude”
• In furtherance of conduct injurious to interests of justice
• Where disclosure in best interests of a child in proceedings
• Where disclosure would establish innocence
• As between parties with common interest
• As between parties enjoying joint privilege
• If statute so provides
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Where LPP does not Apply
• Communications intended to be repeated to adversary
• Actual communications with adversary in contemplation of
litigation
• Facts “patent to the senses” vs facts communicated
• Pre-existing, non-privileged, documents sent to lawyer
• [In-house counsel only]: to communications relevant to EU-
led competition investigations/proceedings
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Duration of LPP
• ‘Once privileged, always privileged’?
• Legal advice privilege
• Litigation privilege
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Thank you for your Attention!
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The Solicitor’s Relationship to the Court & other Matters
Emily Egan McGrath BL
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Q&A
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