On 10 April 2018, President Donald Trump tweeted “Attorney-client privilege is dead!” This was not the President’s deep analysis of the state of legal professional privilege (LPP) but a reaction to the raid on the offices of one of his former lawyers and the seizing of a quantity of documentation. Continue reading
In Moylett v Geldof and another, Carr J has given a very short judgment on the first defendant’s application to strike out parts of the claimant’s expert report. Continue reading
“Cutting out the middle man” is a well-known fact of life (making the expression gender neutral is more difficult). Whether it is selling your house privately to cut out the estate agent or disposing of your car through a private “ad” rather than via the local garage, opportunities abound to save costs by dealing direct with the other party. Even a luxury holiday can come into the frame: book that chalet in Verbier with the owner and you can save yourself the agency charges that would apply should it instead be reserved through a tour operator. So the upshot of the story is that the middle man loses out and the consequences are there to see: estate agents close down and household names go bust. Continue reading