The WLR Daily case summaries
[2024] WLR(D) 523
King’s Bench Division
Aabar Holdings SarL v Glencore plc and others
[2024] EWHC 3046 (Comm)
2024 Oct 15, 16; Nov 27
Picken J
Evidence— Privilege— Common interest privilege— Claimant sole shareholder of dissolved company formerly having interest in shares of defendant company— Claimant bringing statutory claims against defendant as successor in title— Claimant submitting shareholder rule preventing defendant from asserting privilege— Whether shareholder rule valid— Types of privilege to which shareholder rule applicable— Whether defendant entitled to assert privilege against claimant