summons to advocates
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“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”.

Investigating Agencies authority to summon Lawyers
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The development comes in the wake of a recent controversy over the Enforcement Directorate’s summons to Senior Advocates Arvind Datar and Pratap Venugopal, which has raised serious concerns within the legal fraternity about the sanctity of client-counsel confidentiality and the independence of the legal profession.

Arvind Kejriwal ED
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The Court followed by hearing the application under Section 207 of CrPC moved on behalf of Kejriwal.