Part IIIU.K. Miscellaneous and General

Legal ProceedingsU.K.

103 Extension of privilege for communications with solicitors relating to patent proceedings.E+W+N.I.

(1)It is hereby declared that the rule of law which confers privilege from disclosure in legal proceedings in respect of communications made with a solicitor or a person acting on his behalf, or in relation to information obtained or supplied for submission to a solicitor or a person acting on his behalf, for the purpose of any pending or contemplated proceedings before a court in the United Kingdom extends to such communications so made for the purpose of any pending or contemplated—

(a)proceedings before the comptroller under this Act or any of the relevant conventions, or

(b)proceedings before the relevant convention court under any of those conventions.

(2)In this section—

(3)This section shall not extend to Scotland.

Extent Information

E1S. 103 does not extend to Scotland, the Channel Islands nor the Colonies.

Textual Amendments

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C1S. 103 amended (E.W.) (1.1.1992) by S.I. 1991/2684, arts. 2, 4, 5, Sch.1.