Part 1Serious Crime Prevention Orders
Information safeguards
I112Restrictions for legal professional privilege
1
A serious crime prevention orderF2in England and Wales or Northern Ireland may not require a person—
a
to answer any privileged question;
b
to provide any privileged information; or
c
to produce any privileged document.
2
A “privileged question” is a question which the person would be entitled to refuse to answer on grounds of legal professional privilege in proceedings in the High Court.
3
“Privileged information” is information which the person would be entitled to refuse to provide on grounds of legal professional privilege in such proceedings.
4
A “privileged document” is a document which the person would be entitled to refuse to produce on grounds of legal professional privilege in such proceedings.
F14A
A serious crime prevention order in Scotland may not require a person to breach any duty of confidentiality of communications which the person could not be required to breach in proceedings before the appropriate court.
5
But F3subsections (1) and (4A) do not prevent an order from requiring a lawyer to provide the name and address of a client of his.