Communications Between Attorneys And Clients: Privileges/Protections

Introduction.

In order for this article to be correctly understood, we should first mention the relationship between attorneys and clients. As established by Article 4 of the Attorney's Code of Practice, the relationship between the client and his or her attorney is based on trust, and requires comprehensive professional conduct which is honest, sincere, truthful and diligent. Furthermore, following the case law of the Supreme Court (for example, the Supreme Court Judgment of April 3, 1990), trust is the basis of this relationship, the absence or loss of which shall terminate it. Trust, therefore, defined according to the Spanish dictionary as the belief one has in someone or something, is the sine qua non element or condition for all relationships between attorneys and clients, which is intuitu personae.