legal professional privilege
- legal professional privilege
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A fundamental right at common law that entitles a litigant to withhold certain evidence during the course of judicial and quasi-judicial proceedings.
There are two types:
• Legal advice privilege (confidential communications between lawyers and their clients made for the dominant purpose of seeking or giving legal advice).
• Litigation privilege (confidential communications between lawyers and their clients, or the lawyer or client and a third party, which come into existence for the dominant purpose of being used in connection with actual or pending litigation).
Related links
Practical Law Dictionary. Glossary of UK, US and international legal terms.
www.practicallaw.com.
2010.
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