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Published on: 29 January 2013
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Christopher Style QC practises at One Essex Street in The Temple. He is a well known commentator on English rules on disclosure and privilege, having been co-author of the first six editions of Documentary Evidence. We asked him about the decision of the Supreme Court in the Prudential case: who was right, those in the majority or the dissenting minority?

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