Legal Professional Privilege: Addlesee and others v Dentons Europe LLP
Author David Castor Licence CCO 1.0 Source Wikipedia Royal Courts of Justice Jane Lambert Court of Appeal (Lords Justices Lewison, Floyd and Hamblin) Addlesee and others v Dentons Europe LLP [2019] EWCA Civ 1600 (2 Oct 2019) This was an appeal against Master Clark's refusal to order disclosure of certain documents on the grounds that they were privileged. The applicants for disclosure were investors in a Cypriot company called Anabus Holdings Ltd ("Anabus") and the respondents were Anabus's former solicitors. Anabus had been wound up though it would still have been possible to restore it to the register. The applicants, who had lost a lot of money from investing in Anabus, had brought deceit and negligence proceedings against the solicitors. At paragraph [1] of his judgment, Lord Justice Lewison summarized the issue in this appeal as: "what happens to legal advice privilege attaching to communications between a company and its lawyers...