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Disclosure and inspection of documents – Application for disclosure. The proceedings concerned the ownership of property and whether that property formed part of the deceased's estate. In the course of proceedings, the judge made an order preventing the disclosure of certain information given to the Revenue and Customs Commissions. The second defendant appealed. The Chancery Division held that, among other things, the judge had been wrong in her conclusion that the material documents and/or their contents were not subject to legal advice privilege and, to that extent, the appeal would be allowed.
Disclosure and inspection of documents – Application for disclosure. The proceedings concerned the ownership of property and whether that property formed part of the deceased's estate. In the course of proceedings, the judge made an order preventing the disclosure of certain information given to the Revenue and Customs Commissions. The second defendant appealed. The Chancery Division held that, among other things, the judge had been wrong in her conclusion that the material documents and/or their contents were not subject to legal advice privilege and, to that extent, the appeal would be allowed.
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