Fountain Court is pleased to announce the publication by Oxford University Press of the fourth edition of The Law of Privilege, jointly edited by Bankim Thanki KC and Tamara Oppenheimer KC, with contributors Patrick Goodall KC, Rosalind Phelps KC, Henry King KC, James Cutress KC, Chloe Carpenter KC, Nik Yeo, Adam Sher, Rebecca Loveridge and Leonora Sagan, all barristers at Fountain Court.
Recognised as a leading text, the book provides a comprehensive reference on legal professional privilege in both contentious and non-contentious contexts. It addresses legal advice privilege and litigation privilege, as well as privilege against self-incrimination and without prejudice privilege, and offers detailed guidance on how privilege arises, how it may be lost, and its limits. The work also examines issues which regularly arise in practice, including exceptions to privilege, multi-jurisdictional matters and procedural challenges.
This new edition covers the wealth of case law in the area since the previous edition, including SFO v ENRC, R (Jet2.com ) v CAA, FRC v Sports Direct, Loreley Financing v Credit Suisse, Al Sadeq v Dechert, PCP Capital Partners v Barclays Bank and Volaw v Comptroller of Taxes. It also introduces new sections addressing privilege in criminal proceedings, an area which has previously received less attention in the textbooks.
Drawing on the authors’ extensive first-hand experience in many of the leading privilege cases of the past two decades, the work continues to provide authoritative and practical guidance in this complex and important area of the law.
