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Legal Privilege

What is Legal Privilege?

The protection of communications between an attorney and client from disclosure, relevant to incident investigations and compliance matters.

Compliance and Regulatory

Terms that appear alongside legal privilege

Each of these is named in at least one of the same controls as legal privilege. The number is how many controls name both.

Frameworks that govern legal privilege

ISO 27001:2022View framework →NIST SP 800-53 Rev 5View framework →

What the standards actually require on legal privilege

Requirements naming legal privilege across 3 standards, quoted from the control text.

Jamaica Data Protection Act 20202 controls

The Jamaica Data Protection Act 2020 (Act No. 7 of 2020) is Jamaica's first comprehensive data protection legislation passed by the Jamaican Parliament 16 June 2020 + assented to by the Governor-General 30 June 2020 + published in the Gazette 1 July 2020.

JM-DPA2020-Scope-Application-Sec1-3-31Dec2021-PartialEffective-1Dec2023-MandatoryCompliance-Territorial-Extraterritorial · Jamaica Data Protection Act 2020 - Scope + Application + Sections 1-3 + Commencement 1 December 2021 Partial + 1 December 2023 Mandatory Compliance + Territorial + Extraterritorial Application + Definitions →
Malaysia PDPA 20101 control

Provide and operate channels for data subjects to exercise statutory rights under Sections 30-43. Right of access (Section 30) within 21 days extendable + prescribed fee not exceeding RM10.

MY-PDPA-Data-Subject-Rights-Access-Correction-Portability-Withdraw-Consent-Prevent-Marketing-Sections-30-43 · Malaysia PDPA Subject Rights + Access + Correction + Portability + Withdraw Consent + Prevent Marketing + Sections 30 to 43 →
South Africa Promotion of Access to Information Act (PAIA)1 control

Access shall be refused on mandatory grounds including third party personal information, commercial information of third parties, and protection of safety of individuals and property, and may be refused on discretionary grounds including legal privilege and op...

PAIA-GRD-05 · Mandatory and discretionary grounds for refusal →

Questions people ask about legal privilege

What is Legal Privilege?
The protection of communications between an attorney and client from disclosure, relevant to incident investigations and compliance matters.
Why is Legal Privilege important for compliance?
Legal Privilege is a key concept in Compliance and Regulatory. Understanding legal privilege helps organizations meet regulatory requirements, reduce risk, and demonstrate due diligence during audits. Our compliance platform maps 686 frameworks with 311K cross-framework control mappings.
Which compliance frameworks address Legal Privilege?
Legal Privilege appears in the requirement text of Jamaica Data Protection Act 2020, Malaysia PDPA 2010, South Africa Promotion of Access to Information Act (PAIA). Across these standards we have identified 4 controls that name it directly, each linked to the control text on the compliance platform.
Where can I learn more about Legal Privilege?
Explore our compliance framework pages to see how legal privilege applies across different standards and regulations. Our implementation guides provide step-by-step guidance, and the compliance platform offers AI-powered analysis of how this concept maps across 686 frameworks.

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