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Legal privilege: Email on how to disguise discriminatory dismissal is admissible

X v Y Ltd [2019] IRLR 516 EAT

legal advice privilege | admissibility of evidence | disability discrimination

In X v Y Ltd, the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) held that an email containing legal advice on how to disguise a discriminatory dismissal as a redundancy is not protected by legal advice privilege and is admissible as evidence in a tribunal.