Privilege
Law Firm

There are a number of forms of privilege in law, namely legal professional privilege, litigation privilege,  without prejudice privilege, and the privilege against self-incrimination. These forms of privilege may be likened to extensions to confidentiality.

Priviliege in this context allows maintenence of confidentiality in matters such as obtaining legal advice and communications reasonably necessary in obtaining such legal advice, such that communications are protected from production or disclosure during the course of legal proceedings or during the course of an investigation by regulators.

There are very limited exceptions to privilege and they include fraud is involved. Furthermore privilege may be lost by voluntary disclosure by the person entitled to the privilege.