Carter-Ruck

Good.

So I'm going to start with a recent decision in Carter Ruck and the SRA, where the High Court found that the SRA does not have the power to require regulated persons, i.e. solicitors, to produce documents for the purposes of an SRA regulatory investigation, which are subject to clients' legal professional privilege unless the client agrees to waive it.

So in essence, the decision confirms that legal professional privilege is a fundamental right and one that can only be displaced by an express statutory override or by necessary implications.

This decision has certainly spooked the SRA.

And then Times at Higher Education did a big follow-up where they showed that – This reporting had been suppressed.

Jason Arday, apparently, one can presume that he hired this big law firm, Carter Ruck, which is a huge defamation firm that defends Scientology and celebrities in England.

And elsewhere, Jason already sicked this firm on Jack Grove, the reporter at Times Higher Education.

It was in September of last year, and wrote them this very ominous letter.