Summoning Advocates: Supreme Court Fortifies Advocate-Client Privilege
by Vasanth Rajasekaran* and Harshvardhan Korada**
Advocate-client privilege
To Summon or not to Summon an Advocate? Inside important SC directions to guide Investigators & protect Client-Advocate privilege
“When a person cannot incriminate himself, he cannot be prejudiced or incriminated by the statement of his counsel, only on the basis of the professional communications he had with his counsel, in confidence”.
Advocate-client privilege | MP High Court quashes DCP’s notice summoning Advocate to give statement and signature specimen
The Court rejected the intervener’s application with costs of Rs. 10,000/- to be deposited in the account of the High Court Employees Union within 15 days.