Protecting lawyer's privilege

There can be problematic ethics among practitioners of law but that is quite the case with any profession and its practitioners

If news reports of this week are to be believed, yet again, investigative agencies have sought to make inroads into the domain of lawyers to conduct investigations on their clients. This is a breach of one of the foundational precepts on which a democratic society is built.
 
There is no other profession that is mandated by law to be a keeper of confidence. Under law governing evidence, confidential communication between a lawyer and her client is protected from extraction as evidence. Once a lawyer has been engaged, the communication between the client and the lawyer is protected from being