NLJ this week: Misconduct & the ethics of NDAs

Gould weighs up the ethical considerations and concerns around the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) ‘Thematic Review’ on NDAs, published in August, which followed an SRA warning notice on the topic a few years back.

Gould writes: ‘A particularly striking feature of the warning was the extent of the responsibility it envisaged for a solicitor to protect the interests of another solicitor’s client. The warning had the potential to cut across the pattern of potentially competing professional duties carefully developed by the courts over a very long period.’