Court of Justice 29 April 2010, C-550/07 P (Akzo Nobel Chemicals Ltd and Akcros Chemicals Ltd v European Commission.)

Opinion of the Advocate-General Opinion of the Advocate-General I – Introduction 1. Does the protection of communications between lawyers and their clients (‘legal professional privilege’), (2) guaranteed as a fundamental right under the law of the European Union, also extend to internal exchanges of opinions and information between the management of an undertaking and an ‘enrolled in-house