Antonia Szapary

Trainee Solicitor, Kingsley Napley

Antonia is currently a Trainee Solicitor at Kingsley Napley LLP and will be qualifying in September 2025.

Antonia began her training in the Regulatory team, assisting on disciplinary and fitness-to-practise matters involving legal, medical, and teaching professionals. In Dispute Resolution, she worked on a broad range of commercial disputes including contentious trusts, tax, arbitration, reputation management, and civil fraud, with a focus on crypto-related issues. During her Criminal Litigation seat, she supported cases involving criminal defence, white collar and financial crime, extradition, and internal investigations. She is currently completing her final seat in Family, assisting with financial and child arrangements following divorce, as well as advising on pre-nuptial agreements.

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Legal professional privilege in criminal proceedings

Practice Notes

This Practice Note explains how the principles of legal professional privilege (LPP) apply in a criminal context. It explains the different categories of legal professional privilege, legal advice privilege and litigation privilege, and how these key concepts apply in criminal investigations and proceedings. This Practice Note also considers the impact of the decisions in SFO v ENRC, HSE v Jukes and R (on the application of Jet2.Com Ltd) v CAA on the dominant purpose test in litigation privilege and legal advice privilege and what constitutes ‘reasonable prospect of litigation’ in litigation privilege in criminal investigations. It also considers the difference in the protections afforded by legal advice privilege as opposed to litigation privilege in criminal proceedings.

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