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The Law Society has been granted permission to intervene in Prudential’s appeal to the Supreme Court over legal professional privilege (LPP).
The representative body previously intervened in the Court of Appeal hearing in which Prudential unsuccessfully sought to extend the existing rule of LPP to advice on tax law given by accountants.
The Law Society's president, Linda Lee, welcomed the fact that her organisation had another opportunity to put forward arguments on behalf of the solicitors’ profession in the appeal. She said, ‘If LPP is opened up to any professional person who asserts that they give advice on the law, such as tax advice, they can then seek to withhold vital information from bodies such as HMRC’.
Ms Lee added that if LPP is to be extended, ‘it is up to Parliament to legislate to that effect’.
