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..... ege can be waived 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 thi .....

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..... dence. But, the mere fact 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. I .....

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..... e, although they have nothing to do with negotiations. The third case is, where the words are used in a completely different sense. Thus, in Council of Peterborough v. Mancetter Developments, the documentation was admissible because in context the words meant "without prejudice to an alternative right and without concession to the other application" and had nothing to do with settlement. .....

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