About the Book: Empire in the Hills Simla, Darjeeling, Ootacamund, and Mount
Abu, 1820 1920
Attorney client privilege is often invoked as a defence in international
arbitration proceedings however the participants often have very different
expectations regarding the applicable privilege standard, as national attorney
client privilege laws vary widely between jurisdictions. This is complicated by
the fact that institutional arbitral rules do not include provisions on the
scope of attorney client privilege, nor do they outline the conflict of laws
issues determining the applicable national privilege law. The applicable level
of privilege is therefore left to the discretion of the arbitral tribunal.
Drawing on interviews with more than