CITIC Pacific Ltd v Secretary for Justice

Legal professional privilege (litigation privilege) is not lost merely because privileged material reaches a third party by inadvertence; privilege is the same in civil and criminal proceedings and is waived only by the holder's intentional act, while a partial/limited waiver of privilege is conceptually valid in Hong Kong law (the existing 'Mareva / proprietary freezing order' description is incorrect: this is a legal professional privilege case).