Officers executing a search warrant under the Taxes Management section could properly have accompany them, a legally qualified person who could make immediate assessments of any claim for protection for materials at the property searched by way of legal professional privilege. Such a procedure was sensible. An assertion of a claim of legal privilege was not to be accepted simply as asserted.
Citations:
Times 10-Nov-1999, Gazette 25-Nov-1999, [2000] 1 WLR 453
Statutes:
Cited by:
Cited – Prudential Plc and Another, Regina (on the Application of) v Special Commissioner of Income Tax and Another Admn 14-Oct-2009
The company had obtained legal advice but had taken it from their accountants. The Revenue sought its disclosure, and the company said that as legal advice it was protected by legal professional privilege.
Held: The material was not protected. . .
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Criminal Practice, Taxes Management
Updated: 09 April 2022; Ref: scu.85197