The Minister of Justice published a letter open on Twitter, Friday, to dispel the “misunderstanding” about the article on the protection of professional secrecy in the bill for confidence in justice, considered as an infringement of the rule of law by some business lawyers.
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Defraid that the debate on professional secrecy is “instrumentalized” by some of their representatives, the Minister of Justice has chosen to address, on Friday, November 12, to all the lawyers an open letter he To Posted at midday on her Twitter account . He wishes to dissipate what he considers a “misunderstanding”.
After detailing in this letter “the major advances, unpublished of the protection of the professional secrecy of the lawyers in criminal matters that article 3 of the bill”, Eric Dupond-Moretti threatens to suppress purely and simply this article if The profession continues to see an infringement of the rule of law. A solution that would reduce advances on the protection of the rights of lawyers in the search or requisition of the federals in particular.
He insists that, contrary to what the lawyers’ representatives say, the protection of the secret of consulting activities can not be as absolute as the one covering the advocacy of customers. “The Council is a service activity common to other legal professions such as notaries,” writes the custody of the seals. He expressed his impatience in the face of the lack of a clear answer to the three options he put on the table: deletion of paragraph 2 concerning the case of the lawyer manipulated by his client; leave the project in the state; Delete the entire Article 3 and its thirty-thirty-paragraphs strengthening the protection of lawyers.
Contact, Jérôme Gavaudan, President of the National Bars Council, the representative body of the 70,000 lawyers, answers us: “This is the first time we have a writing on his part, so that’s ahead.” The agreement should be found by Tuesday.