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3 results for: auditors

16 Jun, 2020

High Court decides auditors – not audit clients – are to assess whether documents are privileged and can be withheld from the FRC

By Lucy Isaac

An auditor producing documents to the Financial Reporting Council (the FRC) must make its own assessment of whether those documents are...

19 Feb, 2020

By Ali Kirby-Harris

Audit firm clients (and audit firms themselves) may breathe a – cautious - sigh of relief. In September 2018, the English High Court made...

17 Sep, 2018

By Ali Kirby-Harris

No sooner has the dust settled on the ENRC decision, than the High Court delivers another sizzler… developing the law on privilege...