Comment: privilege confusion in UBS rape probe another jolt for City law as “too many magic circle firms are conducting ‘independent investigations’” the curtain is lifting on the shadowy legal profession legalbusiness.co.uk/blogs/comment-…
Open justice was not high on the list of priorities of the people writing legal letters and exerting pressure when I wrote about part of this UBS/Freshfields situation for @telebusiness last year. Good to see the judge release this order, which fills in a lot of the blanks /1
Ms A has just published a ruling that meant UBS couldn't rely on legal privilege to shield an investigation into her alleged rape. Our story here ICYMI last week: ft.com/content/a072c9…
I’m sharing this because only judgments and their reasons are published on the gov uk website. Orders are not, but the precedent contained in these reasons may help others.
Report prepared by magic circle firm Freshfields into alleged rape of bank employee was not covered by legal privilege, according to employment tribunal ruling:
lawgazette.co.uk/law/freshfield…
The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) is continuing its investigation into Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer partner Caroline Stroud.
law.com/international-…
U.K. Court Rapped UBS in Rape Case: The Swiss bank's handling of the alleged rape of one of its graduates was found lacking by a British judge, in a court ruling the victim successfully fought to have made public. dlvr.it/RxzPJp
UBS was told it couldn’t use legal privilege to shield a report into its handling of a rape claim from the alleged victim because it told her the lawyer who wrote it wasn’t...acting as its lawyer... ft.com/content/a072c9… via @financialtimes
“He was working 80 hours per week on Brexit and his wife was ill. That’s how he came to commit the offence... a reasonable explanation for his behaviour”
Not great reading from the Bar Tribunal. lawgazette.co.uk/news/upskirtin…
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