Passmore on Privilege

The information below provides links to key resources and additional reading. Each topic heading gives you further information on that topic.

Legal advice privilege - general

• Common interest privilege (01 March 2018)
• The ENRC and the RBS Rights Issue Litigation (10 October 2017)
• Communications for the purpose of legal advice - the Australian approach to privilege (08 August 2017)
• The interplay between confidentiality and privilege (19 July 2017)
• A privilege lesson from Singapore (09 June 2017)
• Privilege and corporate clients: the wait goes on (03 February 2017)
• Legal professional privilege: who is the "client"? (23 January 2017)
• Crime Fraud and Investigations in 2017: Guidance on privilege (05 January 2017)
• FCA discussion paper Senior Managers and Certification Regime (06 October 2016)
• The Law Society’s new draft guidance on privilege (08 September 2016)
• Investigatory Powers Bill - an update (30 June 2016)
• How absolute is the right to confidential communications with a lawyer? (22 June 2016)
• Bringing the Investigatory Powers Bill in line with existing laws on privilege (26 February 2016)

Who is the corporate client?

• Privilege and corporate clients: the wait goes on (03 February 2017)
• Legal professional privilege: who is the "client"? (23 January 2017)

Litigation privilege - general

• Conduct of claims clauses and privilege (05 March 2018)
• Common interest privilege (01 March 2018)
• The Law Society’s new draft guidance on privilege (08 September 2016)
• Investigatory Powers Bill - an update (30 June 2016)

Litigation privilege issues

• Court of Appeal endorses ENRC on when criminal proceedings are in contemplation (20 February 2018)
• Litigation privilege upheld in tax investigation case (08 February 2018)
• The effect of a duty of confidentiality owed by a witness (02 February 2018)
• Mistaken disclosure - the principles and the practicalities (17 August 2017)
• The interplay between confidentiality and privilege (19 July 2017)
• A privilege lesson from Singapore (09 June 2017)
• PAG v RBS: Appeal of privilege waiver decision not to go ahead (05 May 2016)

Litigation privilege - examples

• Colin Passmore, Privilege (3rd edition) (2013):
  • Draft witness statements - see paragraphs 3-244 – 3-288
  • Draft expert reports - see paragraphs 3-160 – 3-243

Regulatory investigations

• Another damaging decision on interview notes and waiver vis a vis the SFO (01 May 2018)
• Court of Appeal endorses ENRC on when criminal proceedings are in contemplation (20 February 2018)
• Litigation privilege upheld in tax investigation case (08 February 2018)
• Crime, fraud and investigations 2018: SFO v ENRC appeal (03 January 2018)
• Privilege and Investigations: The ENRC case (10 October 2017)
• The ENRC and the RBS Rights Issue Litigation (10 October 2017)
• Legal Professional Privilege - Director of the SFO v Eurasian Natural Resources Corporation Limited (30 May 2017)
• Crime, fraud and investigations in 2017: Guidance on privilege (03 March 2017)
• Legal professional privilege - the RBS Rights Issue Litigation (09 January 2017)
• Internal investigations and privilege: big challenges ahead (16 December 2016)
• Interview notes, privilege and civil litigation (08 December 2016)
• Privilege and SFO investigations (18 November 2016)
• FCA discussion paper on Senior Managers and Certification Regime (06 October 2016)
• The Law Society's new draft guidance on privilege (08 September 2016)
• PAG v RBS: Appeal of privilege waiver decision not to go ahead (05 May 2016)

Privilege belongs to the client

• Colin Passmore, Privilege (3rd edition) (2013) - see paragraphs 1-177 – 1-186; 6-093 – 6-103; and 7-014 – 7-029
• Common interest privilege (01 March 2018)

Waiver - general

• Colin Passmore, Privilege (3rd edition) (2013) - see Chapter 7
• Waiver of privilege (15 January 2018)
• PAG v RBS: Appeal of privilege waiver decision not to go ahead (05 May 2016)
• Blog - Does publication of privileged material inevitably result in a loss of confidentiality, sufficient to destroy privilege? (24 March 2016)

Sharing with third parties

• Common interest privilege (01 March 2018)

Waiver - some examples

• Blog - Does publication of privileged material inevitably result in a loss of confidentiality, sufficient to destroy privilege? (24 March 2016)

Crime and fraud exception

• The crime-fraud exception to privilege (21 August 2018)
• An exception to privilege? (29 January 2018)
• Privilege and SFO investigations (17 November 2016)