Attorney Client Privilege Survey
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Bahamas
McKinney, Bancroft & Hughes
Mareva House, 4 George Street
P.O. Box N-3937
Nassau,
Bahamas
Tel 242.322.4195
http://www.mckinney.com.bs
Provided they are acting in their capacity as legal advisers and are professionally qualified
Communication (both oral and written statements) between in-house counsel and officers,
directors, servants and agents of their employer for the broad purpose of giving and or receiving
legal advice attract the same legal/professional privilege as communications between attorneys
and their clients. The privilege extends to communications between in-house counsel and their
employer for the purposes of securing legal advice and also for communications in anticipation of
litigation so as to provide evidence and information for the arbitration. Accordingly, memoranda,
notes, minutes, correspondence, reports and schedules passing between the employer, (including
its officers, servants and agents) and in-house counsel, which are prepared sent or received
confidentially as part of the process of giving or receiving legal advice will be privileged. The
privilege does not extend to casual conversations with in-house counsel or communications
outside the scope of securing advice or anticipated litigation or for the purpose of enabling either
party to commit a crime or a fraud.
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