Fiduciaries and legal professional privilege
It is reasonably common for practising lawyers also to act as trustees ('lawyer-trustees'), particularly within organizations that provide both legal and fiduciary services. Under what circumstances can legal professional privilege be claimed in relation to communications with these indivi...
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| Published in: | Trusts & trustees Vol. 24; no. 3; pp. 243 - 249 |
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| Format: | Journal Article |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford
Oxford University Press
01.04.2018
Oxford Publishing Limited (England) |
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| ISSN: | 1363-1780, 1752-2110 |
| Online Access: | Get full text |
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| Summary: | It is reasonably common for practising lawyers also to act as trustees ('lawyer-trustees'), particularly within organizations that provide both legal and fiduciary services. Under what circumstances can legal professional privilege be claimed in relation to communications with these individuals? The test can be stated reasonably easily, but by reason of the fluid roles that officers often have, combined with the ease of dissemination of information electronically, the principles can be difficult to apply in practice. |
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| Bibliography: | ObjectType-Article-1 SourceType-Scholarly Journals-1 ObjectType-Feature-2 content type line 14 |
| ISSN: | 1363-1780 1752-2110 |
| DOI: | 10.1093/tandt/ttx222 |