{"id":11934,"date":"2014-05-27T08:54:29","date_gmt":"2014-05-27T08:54:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.168.1.14\/index.php\/2014\/05\/27\/legal-privilege-part-1-english-law-and-hong-kong-practice\/"},"modified":"2025-09-01T01:20:25","modified_gmt":"2025-08-31T17:20:25","slug":"legal-privilege-part-1-english-law-and-hong-kong-practice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/andrewliu.com.hk\/zh\/legal-privilege-part-1-english-law-and-hong-kong-practice\/","title":{"rendered":"Legal privilege Part 1: English law and Hong Kong practice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9071\" src=\"https:\/\/andrewliu.com.hk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/pdf.png\" alt=\"pdf\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" style=\"text-align: justify;\" \/><span style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/andrewliu.com.hk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Legal-privilege-Part-1-English-law-and-Hong-Kong-practice.pdf\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">ENG<\/a><span style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/span>&nbsp;<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9071\" src=\"https:\/\/andrewliu.com.hk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/pdf.png\" alt=\"pdf\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" \/>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/andrewliu.com.hk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Legal-privilege-Part-1-English-law-and-Hong-Kong-practice_CN.pdf\">\u4e2d\u6587<\/a> &nbsp;&nbsp;<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9071\" style=\"text-align: justify;\" src=\"https:\/\/andrewliu.com.hk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/pdf.png\" alt=\"pdf\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" \/>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/andrewliu.com.hk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Andrew-Horton-Protecting-documents-in-disputes.pdf\">Andrew Horton-Protecting documents in disputes<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Key advice<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">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.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>The duty to disclose and privileged documents<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">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.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">See attached file:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Legal privilege Part 1- English law and Hong Kong practice.pdf<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #022469;\"><strong>\u6cd5\u5f8b\u7279\u6743 \u7b2c\u4e00\u90e8\u5206\uff1a\u82f1\u56fd\u6cd5\u53ca\u9999\u6e2f\u5b9e\u8df5<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>\u4e3b\u8981\u5efa\u8bae<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u4e3a\u4e86\u964d\u4f4e\u8bc9\u8bbc\u5931\u5229\u7684\u98ce\u9669\uff0c\u4fdd\u5b58\u597d\u6587\u6863\u548c\u901a\u8baf\u8bb0\u5f55\u975e\u5e38\u91cd\u8981\u3002\u5982\u679c\u4f1a\u5458\u6709\u4efb\u4f55\u7591\u95ee\uff0c\u6216\u8005\u6709\u4e8b\u6545\u53d1\u751f\u65f6\uff0c\u8bf7\u53ca\u65f6\u8054\u7cfb\u534f\u4f1a\u3002\u534f\u4f1a\u4f1a\u5bf9\u53ef\u80fd\u5377\u5165\u8bc9\u8bbc\u7684\u4e8b\u4ef6\u63d0\u4f9b\u534f\u52a9\uff0c\u8bbe\u8ba1\u7b56\u7565\u3002<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>\u62ab\u9732\u8d23\u4efb\u548c\u7279\u6743\u6587\u4ef6<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u6211\u4eec\u751f\u6d3b\u5728\u4e00\u4e2a\u7535\u5b50\u90ae\u4ef6\u3001\u6587\u672c\u3001\u901a\u8bdd\u8bb0\u5f55\u548c\u793e\u4ea4\u5a92\u4f53\u6cdb\u6ee5\u7684\u4e16\u754c\uff0c\u6bcf\u4e2a\u4eba\u6bcf\u5929\u90fd\u80fd\u5728\u5de5\u4f5c\u4e2d\u505a\u5f88\u591a\u8bb0\u5f55\u3002\u591a\u6570\u65f6\u5019\u8fd9\u4e9b\u8bb0\u5f55\u90fd\u662f\u65e5\u5e38\u4e8b\u52a1\uff0c\u6211\u4eec\u5728\u64cd\u4f5c\u65f6\u4e0d\u4f1a\u592a\u5728\u610f\uff0c\u5c24\u5176\u662f\u8fd9\u4e9b\u4fe1\u606f\u5df2\u7ecf\u53d1\u51fa\u3001\u516c\u5e03\u3001\u5f20\u8d34\u6216\u5b58\u6863\u3002\u4f46\u662f\uff0c\u5f53\u6211\u4eec\u6240\u8bf4\u6240\u505a\u6210\u4e3a\u8bc9\u8bbc\u7126\u70b9\u65f6\uff0c\u65e0\u8bba\u662f\u76f4\u63a5\u7684\u8fd8\u662f\u8f85\u52a9\u7684\uff0c\u8fd9\u4e9b\u4fe1\u606f\u5c31\u53d8\u5f97\u975e\u5e38\u91cd\u8981\u3002\u6362\u53e5\u8bdd\u8bf4\uff0c\u4eca\u5929\u6211\u4eec\u6240\u5199\u7684\u90ae\u4ef6\uff0c\u660e\u5929\u53ef\u80fd\u4f1a\u6210\u4e3a\u6cd5\u5f8b\u5ba1\u67e5\u7684\u5bf9\u8c61\u3002<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u8be6\u7ec6\u4fe1\u606f\u8bf7\u53c2\u9605\u9644\u4ef6\u3002<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;ENG&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;CHN &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Andrew Horton-Protecting documents in disputes 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9071,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[125],"class_list":["post-11934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-circulars","tag-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/andrewliu.com.hk\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/andrewliu.com.hk\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/andrewliu.com.hk\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andrewliu.com.hk\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andrewliu.com.hk\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11934"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/andrewliu.com.hk\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11934\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19254,"href":"https:\/\/andrewliu.com.hk\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11934\/revisions\/19254"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andrewliu.com.hk\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/andrewliu.com.hk\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andrewliu.com.hk\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andrewliu.com.hk\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}