IEA Section 129 — Confidential communications with legal advisers

Summary

No person can be forced to reveal in court any private conversation they had with their lawyer. However, if that person chooses to become a witness in the case, they may be required to disclose only those private conversations that the court decides are needed to explain the testimony they have already given, and nothing more.

Official Text

No one shall be compelled to disclose to the Court any confidential communication which has taken place between him and his legal professional adviser, unless he offers himself as a witness, in which case he may be compelled to disclose any such communications as may appear to the Court necessary to be known in order to explain any evidence which he has given, but no others.

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• BSA §134 — Confidential communication with legal advisers