Disclosure Flashcards
Balabel v Air India
Includes docs that are ancillary to purpose of giving legal advice
Three Rivers
Broad definition of the legal advice: any advice given by lawyers through legal spectacles
The Good Luck
Advice by lawyers repeated internally has benefit of privilege
Parry v Newsgroup
Solicitor’s attendance note of conversation between parties is not privileged
Waugh
Where doc has two purposes, litigation must be dominant purpose
Re Highgrade Traders
Commissioner of the document, not author, should be consulted to determine purpose
USA v Philip Morris
Litigation must be a real likelihood, rather than mere possibility
Rush and Tompkins
Court will look to substance, not form
The Aegis Blaze
Once privilege, always privileged