Professional communications privilege protects legal advice, but excludes communications advancing illegal purposes and observed subsequent crime or fraud. Professional communications privilege bars disclosure, without the client's express consent, of employment-related client communications, documents ... Summary
Professional communications privilege protects legal advice, but excludes communications advancing illegal purposes and observed subsequent crime or fraud.
Professional communications privilege bars disclosure, without the client's express consent, of employment-related client communications, documents encountered professionally, and legal advice. The obligation continues after employment ends. Privilege does not protect communications made to further an illegal purpose or facts observed during employment showing a crime or fraud committed after employment began. A request for defence regarding a past offence remains protected, but using a forged instrument to obtain property and observed subsequent fraudulent alterations are outside the privilege.
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