CHN    ENG   Andrew Horton-Protecting documents in disputes

主要建议

为了降低诉讼失利的风险，保存好文档和通讯记录非常重要。如果会员有任何疑问，或者有事故发生时，请及时联系协会。协会会对可能卷入诉讼的事件提供协助，设计策略。

披露责任和特权文件

我们生活在一个电子邮件、文本、通话记录和社交媒体泛滥的世界，每个人每天都能在工作中做很多记录。多数时候这些记录都是日常事务，我们在操作时不会太在意，尤其是这些信息已经发出、公布、张贴或存档。但是，当我们所说所做成为诉讼焦点时，无论是直接的还是辅助的，这些信息就变得非常重要。换句话说，今天我们所写的邮件，明天可能会成为法律审查的对象。

详细信息请参阅附件。

Legal privilege Part 1: English law and Hong Kong practice

Key advice

In order to mitigate the risk of suffering prejudice in legal proceedings, it is important to ensure careful records are kept of documents and communications.When in doubt, or when an incident has occurred, prompt contact with the Association can assist in putting in place a sound strategy for a matter that may become the subject of legal proceedings.

The duty to disclose and privileged documents

We live in a world of emails, texts, recorded phone conversations and social media, and each one of us is capable of producing dozens (if not more) of records daily in our working life.Most of the time these are routine matters, and we do not think very much about them, especially once they are sent, published, posted or filed. What we say and do, however, becomes very significant should one of our matters become the focus of legal proceedings, be it directly or on an ancillary basis. Said another way: the emails we write today may become the subject of legal scrutiny tomorrow.

See attached file:

Legal privilege Part 1- English law and Hong Kong practice.pdf