Football Governance Act 2025

73 Privileged communications

(1) Nothing in this Part authorises the IFR, an officer of the IFR or an expert reporter to require a person to produce, generate or give to the IFR, an officer of the IFR or an expert reporter a privileged communication.

(2) Nothing in this Part authorises the IFR, an officer of the IFR or an expert reporter to produce or take possession of, or take copies of or extracts from, a privileged communication (but see Part 2 of the Criminal Justice and Police Act 2001 for additional powers of seizure).

(3) For the purposes of this section—

(a) “privileged communication” means a communication—

(i) between a professional legal adviser and their client, or

(ii) made in connection with, or in contemplation of, legal proceedings and for the purposes of those proceedings,

which in proceedings in the High Court would be protected from disclosure on grounds of legal professional privilege;

(b) “expert reporter” means a person appointed under section 66.