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Rejecting claims of privilege, English Court of Appeal dismisses appeal from order to produce English translations of Japanese documents from plaintiff's files which plaintiff's attorneys had selected for translation as relevant to pending regulatory and litigation proceedings involving plaintiff in U.K., U.S., and Japan.

In December 1995, the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) subpoenaed Sumitomo of Japan requiring it and its U.S. subsidiary to provide details about their copper trades and to turn over various types of documents dealing with those trades. Sumitomo hired the U.S. law firm of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison (PW) to represent it. The following month, the U.K. Securities and Investment Board (SIB) also began looking into Sumitomo's copper trading. PW also represented Sumitomo in this inquiry.

Between 1985 and 1996, a Mr. Hamanaka was working for Sumitomo of Japan as head of a team trading on the copper cash and futures markets. In June 1996, Hamanaka ...

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