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....d at the behest of the party entitled to the privilege. Without prejudice privilege can only normally be waived with the consent of both parties to the correspondence. Whilst the rule in privilege is "once privileged, always privileged", the rule for without prejudice is less straightforward, and at least in three party cases, this will not always be the position. A third distinction is that in ....

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....that a party has a without prejudice document does not entitle him to use it without the consent of the other party. Correspondence will only be protected by without prejudice privilege if it is written for the purpose of a genuine attempt to compromise a dispute between the parties. It is not a precondition that the correspondence bears the heading without prejudice. If it is clear from the sur....