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Japan's new attorney-client privilege off to slow start due to pandemic, senior JFTC official says

By Toko Sekiguchi ( July 13, 2021, 07:13 GMT | Insight) -- Japan’s newly introduced attorney-client privilege for antitrust investigations, the first of its kind under Japanese law, has been underutilized due to a lack of enforcement cases during the Covid-19 pandemic, leaving regulators with less experience than they would like at this stage, a senior official said. The much-awaited change in Japan’s enforcement procedure was part of a wide revision to its Antimonopoly Act, which changed Japan’s antitrust penalties in exchange for granting a certain level of confidentiality between companies and their outside counsel.Japan’s newly introduced attorney-client privilege for antitrust investigations, the first of its kind under Japanese law, has been underutilized due to a lack of enforcement cases during the Covid-19 pandemic, leaving regulators with less experience than they would like at this stage, a senior official said....

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