Using external lawyers may not protect investigation reports, FWC ruling shows An employer's workplace investigation report ...

Recent polling at the 2025 ICC New York Conference on International Arbitration showed that, while practitioners’ views are ...

A recent Fair Work Commission decision confirms that employers cannot always withhold workplace investigation reports merely by asserting legal professional privilege.

Yesterday in a landmark decision, Jardine Strategic Limited v Oasis Investments II Master Fund Ltd and others, the Privy Council, on appeal from Bermuda’s Court of Appeal, has changed the law. “The ...

In France, unlike for instance in the United States or United Kingdom, the scope of attorneyclient privilege is restricted to attorneys-at-law registered with a bar and acting independently (within an ...

The move brings France closer to Europe, Canada, and other major economies where in-house legal advice already enjoys some ...

Since the elimination of general federal common law in 1938,1 federal courts have sought to avoid the specter of “two conflicting systems of law controlling the primary activity of citizens.”2 But ...

The policy behind the attorney-client privilege is to promote candid and open communication by clients to their attorneys without fear of disclosure. The attorney-client privilege only applies if the ...

Using AI chatbots for legal advice matters may put attorney-client privilege at risk, and the chat logs could be used against ...