In the recent case of Kyla Shipping Co Ltd v Freight Trading Ltd [2022] EWHC 376 (Comm) the English Commercial Court rejected a claim to litigation privilege over preliminary investigations conducted ...

Legal professional privilege is absolute unless overridden by statute or the party entitled to claim privilege waives that privilege or is estopped from claiming it. There is no principle of law that ...

BOSTON, MA — A lawyer who represented a client in a divorce case could not be sued over fraudulent misrepresentations he allegedly made to the court during the divorce trial, the Supreme Judicial ...

On March 29, 2022, the Supreme Court of Connecticut decided Dorfman v. Smith, 342 Conn. 582 (2022), which extends the reach of absolute immunity under the litigation privilege doctrine to claims of ...

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The litigation privilege protects parties and their lawyers from liability for statements they make not only at trial, but at all stages of litigation and in other quasi-judicial proceedings as well.

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approaching litigation adversaries to determine whether they are agreeable to those or other methods for simplifying privilege logging requirements; and seeking appropriate court orders, including non ...

Australia’s Federal Court ordered a plaintiff to pay two parties’ costs in connection with interlocutory processes that ...

From Williams v. Lazer, decided Thursday by the Nevada Supreme Court: After respondent threatened to sue appellant over a text message that he perceived as defamatory, appellant filed a complaint with ...