This significant new title provides a comprehensive guide to legal professional privilege as it applies to litigation and non-litigation situations. The book contains authoritative guidance to the law as it stands today, following the landmark decisions of the Court of Appeal and House of Lords in the Three Rivers litigation, and the impact of the Human Rights Act 1998. Authored by Bankim Thanki QC, who appeared in the Three Rivers cases, and a team from Fountain Court chambers, it provides detailed coverage of the nature of privilege, how it arises, how it is lost, and its limits. Topics covered include legal advice privilege, litigation privilege, loss of privilege, joint and common interest privilege, without prejudice privilege, and the privilege against self-incrimination.