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Section 63: Legal professional privilege.

Courts and Legal Services Act 1990 · 1990 c. 41View on legislation.gov.uk

This provision is repealed
It is retained for historical reference and may not reflect the law currently in force.

Part II: Legal Services

REPEALED on 2010-01-01 by Legal Services Act 2007.

The text below is from the dated revised snapshot immediately preceding this status change. It is historical and is not current law. View the historical source.

This section applies to any communication made to or by a person who is not a barrister or solicitor at any time when that person is—

providing advocacy or litigation services as an authorised advocate or authorised litigator;
providing conveyancing services as an authorised practitioner; or
providing probate services as a probate practitioner.

Any such communication shall in any legal proceedings be privileged from disclosure in like manner as if the person in question had at all material times been acting as his client’s solicitor.

In subsection (1), “probate practitioner” means a person to whom section 23(1) of the Solicitors Act 1974 (unqualified person not to prepare probate papers etc.) does not apply.

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