EVIDENCE - Legal Professional Privilege - application for access to legal advice - claim of legal professional privilege over advice - whether privilege attached to communication of legal advice by recipient to regulator in Germany - whether privilege attached to subsequent communications between recipient and German regulator which reproduced and referred to parts of legal advice - requirements of legal professional privilege - held: privilege attached to all communications - whether waiver of privilege occurred by provision to regulator in Germany - whether disclosure to regulator was in circumstances protecting confidentiality - whether recipient's conduct in Australian class action proceedings inconsistent with maintenance of privilege - held: no waiver as conduct maintained confidentiality and was not inconsistent with conduct in Australian proceedings
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