Privilege for legal advice given by in-house legal adviser is upheld

• Author:
• CMS Cameron McKenna

Given the uncertainty about the scope of legal advice privilege in an in-house context forecasted by many commentators in the wake of the Court of Appeal’s decision in Three Rivers DC v Governor and Company of the Bank of England the recent decision of University of Southampton v Kelly provides a welcome example of lower court Judges experiencing no such difficulty, applying well-established legal principles to uphold a claim of legal advice privilege in respect of advice provided by an... (705 more words)

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