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Privilege and Internal Investigations

Run Time
26 Minutes
Learning Method
On-Demand Training
Practice Area
Employment
Available Until
09/10/2026

Price £130.00

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Description

Join Emmanuelle Ries, Partner at Kinglsey Napley, in this webinar on privilege and internal investigations. The following is discussed:

  • legal advice privilege;
  • litigation privilege;
  • fact-finding is privileged
    • SFO v ENRC [2017] EWHC 1017 (QB) (first instance)​;
    • Balabel v Air India [1988] Ch 317 (CA)​;
    • Al Sadeq v Dechert LLP [2023] EWHC 795 (KB)​​;
  • set up client group
    • Three Rivers District Council v Governor and Co of the Bank of England (Three Rivers (No 5)) [2003] EWCA Civ 474​​;
  • witnesses likely to be third parties;
  • interview notes – not privilege just because a lawyer has written them
    • The RBS Rights Issue Litigation [2016] EWHC 3161 (Ch)​;
    • SFO v ENRC [2017] EWHC 1017 (QB) (first instance)​;
  • litigation privilege – record your assessment;
  • the writing need not be on the wall
    • United States of America v Philip Morris Inc [2004] EWCA Civ330​;
    • Collidge v Freeport Plc [2007] EWHC 645 (QB)​; and
    • share with care.


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Speakers

Emmanuelle Ries

Partner

Kingsley Napley

Emmanuelle is recognised as a specialist of employment issues arising in cross border situations.  She provides support to corporate clients with day-to-day employment law advice from recruitment, contractual and secondment documentation to issues arising at the end of the employment relationship. Emmanuelle is bilingual in English and French.
 
Emmanuelle advises employers and employees in relation to High Court disputes on post termination restrictions.

For her employer clients, Emmanuelle often advises on risk and strategy relating to workplace or Board conflicts, exits and restructuring exercises, and data protection and data confidentiality, including in a multi-jurisdictional context.

For her senior executive clients, Emmanuelle advises on employment contract terms at the recruitment stage and on exit terms with a view to achieving a negotiated settlement package, advising on maximising financial remuneration, including bonuses and deferred compensation as well as on confidentiality and post termination restrictions.  

Emmanuelle sits on the Advisory Council of the French Chamber of Commerce in Great Britain and also counsels British and overseas clients with the employment aspects of setting up operations or acquiring a business in France and handling workforce and HR issues in France.
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