Confidential communication with legal advisers
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Summary
A person cannot be forced to disclose confidential communications with their legal adviser in court. If they choose to testify as a witness, the court may require disclosure only of those communications necessary to explain the evidence they have given. Other communications remain protected.
Example
Priya consulted her lawyer about a rent dispute and later gave sworn evidence in court. The court cannot make her disclose their private advice, but if part of her testimony can only be explained by that advice, the judge may order disclosure of just those communications.
Bare Act
Enacted textNo one shall be compelled to disclose to the Court any confidential communication which has taken place between him and his legal 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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