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By Robin Binsard and Guillaume Martine
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Lhe professional secrecy of the lawyer is consubstantial with the right to be defended, and with the right to benefit from the most enlightened advice possible. However, it is precisely against this secrecy that the Joint Joint Committee adopted, on October 21, 2021, a dangerous amendment aimed at drastically reducing the protection offered by it.
There can be no defense without trust, and no trust without secrecy. It is inconceivable that the confidences made to the lawyer could be used against his client, except to destroy any possible trust between one and the other and to prevent the first from exercising his mission for the benefit of the second. Émile Garçon wrote as early as 1952: “Neither the doctor, nor the lawyer, nor the priest could accomplish their mission if the confidences which are…
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