Counter-currents to Three Rivers: Legal advice privilege in Hong Kong
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The English position in relation to legal advice privilege now stands in contrast to the position in Hong Kong and a growing number of jurisdictions that have rejected the Three Rivers approach recently endorsed in The RBS Rights Issue Litigation. This divergence presents added challenges and complexities for international institutions conducting internal investigations against a backdrop of court proceedings and regulatory or criminal investigations in different countries.
This article was first published in the Butterworths Journal of International Banking and Financial Law’s March 2017 edition.
