The test for legal advice privilege is to establish whether the communication in question was made confidentially for the purpose of legal advice construing such purposes broadly.
However, there are severe restrictions on when deductions from salary can be made, even by agreement with the employee, so it is best to have advice before applying salary deductions.
It is stressed that this resubmission and redetermination is no reflection on the correctness of the earlier decision taken by the planning committee, based on planning officer advice.