Proceeds of Crime Bill – in a Public Bill Committee am 6:15 pm ar 29 Ionawr 2002.
Amendment proposed: No. 544, in page 226, leave out lines 16 to 24 and insert—
' ''legal privilege'' means protection in legal proceedings from disclosure, by virtue of any rule of law relating to the confidentiality of communications; and ''items subject to legal privilege'' are—communications between a professional legal adviser and his client, or communications made in connection with or in contemplation of legal proceedings and for the purposes of those proceedings, which would be so protected.'.—[Mr. Bob Ainsworth.]
Question put, That the amendment be made:—
The Committee divided: Ayes 15, Noes 7.