Appeal from order for disclosure of certain documents to the Respondent, the Financial Reporting Council for which legal professional privilege was claimed.
Held: The appeal was allowed in part. The Regulations did not make express provision which would allow the overriding of legal professional privilege.
Sir Terence Etherton MR, Lewison, Rose LJJ
[2020] EWCA Civ 177, [2020] 4 All ER 552, [2020] 2 WLR 1256, [2020] WLR(D) 97, [2020] 2 All ER (Comm) 1027, [2021] Lloyd’s Rep FC 181, [2021] Ch 457
Bailii, WLRD
Statutory Auditors and Third Country Auditors Regulations 2016
England and Wales
Litigation Practice
Updated: 21 December 2021; Ref: scu.648247