Legal professional privilege “springs essentially from the basic need of a man in a civilized society to be able to turn to his lawyer for advice and help.”
These words of Advocate General Gordon Slynn have been quoted with approval by the highest courts in both the U.K. and Australia. However, they failed to convince the European Court of Justice in its 1982 AM&S decision, when the ECJ held that privilege does not cover the advice of in-house lawyers.
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