Sections 126[1] to 129[2] deal with the privilege that is attached to
professional communication between the legal advisors and the client under the
Indian Law. On the other hand privilege under common law is incorporated under
two broad heads, Legal advice privilege which protects any communication between
a lawyer and the client which have the purpose of seeking or giving legal advice
and Litigation Privilege which protects any communication between a lawyer and
third parties or between the client and third parties which are made for the
purpose of existing or contemplated legal proceedings. The rational of the
privileges are grounded in the principle of natural justice.[3]
The term .privilege. has a range of meanings. Sometimes it is used loosely to
cover exclusionary rules like the one generally barring admissibility of
compromise negotiations. A narrower use of the term, covering rules preserving a
right to keep certain relevant information from one’s adversaries, would include
the work product doctrine and the right against self-incrimination[4].
Privileges give special treatment, i.e. a cloak of secrecy to a variety of
confidential communications such as those made in the relationships of
lawyer-client, husband-wife, or priest-penitent.[5]
One of the most important grounds on which access to evidence can be refused is
that the evidence in question is protected by legal professional privilege. This
doctrine gives legal recognition to a person’s interest in maintaining the
secrecy of confidential communication in connection with his legal affairs. The
doctrine originated at common law and for most purposes its scope and limits are
still determined by the common law.[6]
Information which is conveyed in a privileged communication cannot be brought
into trial and cannot be a subject for discovery even though the statement may
be relevant to a disputed issue. In a lawyer-client context, for example, a
client can refuse to answer a question like .what did you tell your lawyer?. The
client is also entitled to prevent the lawyer from revealing what the client
said. Similarly, a letter written by a client to the lawyer will not be
admissible.
However, only the actual statement made in confidential relationships are kept
secret by privileges. Suppose that a client has said to his lawyer, .I knocked
down a telephone pole while I was driving my red car. The client could not in
this case be asked in the trial, .What did you tell your lawyer about the
telephone pole and your car?. However, the lawyer-client privilege would not
block questions like, Did you knock down the telephone pole?. or .What color is
your car?
The privilege protects against revealing the statements that a person makes
privately to his lawyer but it does not protect against revealing the
information a client knows whether or not the client may have communicated that
information in privileged conversation. The privilege prohibits questions that
would call for answers like, My client told me his car is red or I told my
lawyer that my car is red.
If information can be developed in ways that do not involve reliance on a
communication made in a confidential relationship, privilege doctrines have no
effect. They keep the fact that the information was discussed, but they do not
make the information itself a secret. Like the special relevance rules for
character or subsequent remedial measures, privileges represent a social choice
that particular goals should overcome the general premise that relevant evidence
is admissible.
The most widely accepted rationale for evidentiary privileges is a utilitarian
analysis, that the communication are socially desirable , and that people would
be less likely to make them if they were not privileged. In a lawyer-client
case, the utilitarian argument would be that the society as a whole benefits
when the frequency of people’s consultation with lawyers increase. Also, people
who need advice about complicated transactions or other events might decline to
seek it if they thought that the words they spoke to lawyers could be used
against them sometime later at trials.
Besides the utilitarian point of view, two other explanations are sometimes
given. One is that privileges reflect a recognition that the state should not
intrude in certain personal relationships. In contrast, another theory argues
that rather than showing government’s sensitivity to privacy, privileges show
government’s interest in corrupting the search for the truth to benefit powerful
social groups such as lawyers.
Although there are many different privileges, they all involve certain basic
issues. Did the communication take place within the relationship required for
the privilege? Was it confidential? Who is entitled to claim the privilege? Has
the proponent of the privilege waived its benefit by acting in ways that has
destroyed the confidentiality it is meant to provide? Does the communication
involve a topic for which the protection of the privilege is removed to serve
other social interests?
Research Methodology
Statement of Problem:
The project aims to discuss the relation of privilege between the advocate and
their clients, while also discussing the position of law in India and UK.
Objectives:
- To understand the scope of sections of the Indian Evidence Act such as
section 126 and 129
- To get the knowledge about the Indian Law on privileged communication.
- To know and analyses the difference between Litigation privilege and
Legal Advice privilege under English law.
- To appreciate the provisions of Police and Criminal Evidence Act, 1984
(PACE) in UK.
Hypothesis:
Section 126-129 of the Indian Evidence Act gives legal sanction to the moral
obligation of to respect the confidence reposed in him and not disclose
communications which have been made to him in professional confidence i.e. in
the course andor the purpose of his employment, by or on behalf of his clients,
or to state the course of conditions of documents with which he has become
acquainted in the course of his professional employment, without the consent of
his client.
Research Questions
- What is the difference between Litigation and Legal Advice Privilege in
England
- How is Indian Law different from the English Law in the matters of
Privileged communication?
- What is the relation of Section 126 of the Indian Evidence Act, 1872
and the Section 91 of the Code Of Criminal Procedure, 1973?
Research Methodology:
The work basically fulfills doctrinal research criteria as the possibility to
have an empirical study over the topic is very feeble. But the approach is
analytical in nature. The area of work is studied in depth Books, articles,
journals, news blogs, case studies and other such primary data's and internet
sites have been searched and will be searched at large to find out the relevant
data's.
Review of Literature:
Here are some literature reviews that will illustrate that what is the approach
in this research and what are the materials which have been searched for
carrying on this project work.
- The Indian Evidence Act by V Nageshwar Rao
A Critical Commentary Covering Emerging Issues and International Developments -
This section-wise commentary on the law of evidence offers a unique comparative
perspective vis-a-vis the position in other countries like the USA, UK,
Australia and Canada. The author has attempted an entirely different approach to
the study of law of evidence, focusing attention on the Act's close relationship
with CrPC and CPC on the one hand and its development in other common law
countries on the other hand. Critical appraisal has been made of the judgments
of the Indian Courts and of the UK and USA Courts.
- The Indian Evidence Act by KD Gaur
After having written extensively on the substantive and procedural Criminal Law
– the Indian Penal Code, 1860 and the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973, Prof. KD
Gaur has written an authoritative book on Law of Evidence. With this object in
view, the author has endeavoured to write this book so that long felt need of
students, teachers, members of the Bench and Bar, prosecutors, defence, police
personnel, NGO’s and those interested in the administration of justice be met.
The importance of an exhaustive and standard text book on Law of Evidence can be
visualized from the very fact that Law of Evidence is applicable to both civil
and criminal cases including local and special Acts
Scope of The Sections
Under Section 126[7], no barrister, attorney, pleader of vakil can be compelled
to disclose any communication made to him in the course of his employment,
unless the client consents for that disclosure.[8]
When a barrister, attorney, pleader, or vakil is the party interrogated as a
witness, he is not only privileged and protected from disclosing, but even if
willing, he is not permitted to disclose, unless with his clients express
consent.[9]
The principle on which communications to a solicitor, etc are privileged is
that, otherwise, a man would be deterred from fully disclosing his case, so as
to obtain proper professional aid to be thrown into litigation. Section 126 is
designed to abort the attempt to intrude into the privacy of the close preserve
of the fund of information conveyed by the client closeted in confidence.[10]
On the other hand Section 129 lays down that no one shall be compelled to
disclose to the court any confidential communication which has taken place
between him and his legal professional adviser, unless he offers himself as a
witness in which case he may be compelled to disclose any such communication as
may appear to the court necessary to be known in order to explain any evidence
which he has given, but no others.[11]
It is highly desirable that communication with professional advisers should be
unembarrassed by any such fears as a contrary decision would give rise to.
Advice would have to be given on maimed and distorted statements, and useless
litigation would thus be promoted in numberless cases. Lastly, a compulsory
disclosure of confidential communication is so opposed to the popular conscience
on that point that it would lead to frequent falsehoods as to what had really
taken place.[12]
The rule of protection in this section is one which should be
construed in a sense most favourable in bringing professional knowledge to bear
effectively on the facts, out of which legal rights and obligations arise. The
disclosures made under this section, should not be enforced in any cases, except
where they are plainly necessary.[13]
This section applies where the client is interrogated and whether he be a party
to the suit or not. It adopts the principle contended for in Taylor on
Evidence[14], but with this qualification that if a party becomes a witness of
his own accord, he shall, if the court requires it, be made to disclose
everything necessary to the true comprehension of his testimony[15], where it
was held that a case laid down by the plaintiff before the counsel was
privileged not only as against the court, but as against the opposite-party.[16]
Indian Law Relating To The Provision
In the Halsbury Laws of Evidence[17] it is observed that .Confidential
communications passing between a client and his legal adviser and made for the
purpose of obtaining or giving legal advice are in general, privileged from
disclosure. The privilege is available in respect of the oral testimony of
witnesses, and the principles which determine whether a communication is or is
not privileged are the same for both oral and written communications. The
privilege is that of the client and may be waived by him.[18]
As already posited Sections 126 and 127 apply when the legal advisers or his
clerk, etc are interrogated as a witness. [19]The professional advisor of a
third party or a stranger is privileged; or rather his client is, as well as the
professional adviser of a party to the suit. Section 129 applies when the client
himself is interrogated and whether such client be a party to the case or not;
and by the terms of this latter section, it is only communications which have
passed between a person and his legal professional adviser that that are
privileged.[20]
The rule is established for the protection not of the legal
advisers but of the client and the privilege, therefore, may only be waived by
the latter, it is founded on the impossibility of conducting legal business
without professional assistance, and on the necessity, in order to render that
assistance effectual, of securing the fullest and most unreserved communication
between the client and his legal adviser.[21]
Further, a compulsory disclosure of confidential communications is so opposed to
the popular conscience that it would lead to frequent falsehoods as to what had
really taken place. The rule of law. as pointed out by Lord Sankey ¦is the
condition of liberty.
Amid the cross-currents and shifting sands of public life,
the law is like a great rock upon which a man may set his feet and be safe,
while the inevitable inequalities of private life are not so dangerous in a
country where every citizen knows that in the law courts, at any rate, he can
get justice.[22]
However, the provisos to S. 126 prevent the privilege conferred from becoming
the shield of crime or illegality.
The rule does not apply to all that which
passed between a client and his legal advisor, but only to what passes between
them in professional confidence, and the contriving of crime or illegality is no
part of the professional occupation of a legal adviser; and it can as little be
said that it is part of his duty to advise his client as to the means of evading
the law.[23]
This section does not forbid the disclosure of a fact disclosed[24]. The
immunity from disclosure which can be claimed by a client in respect of a
communication made to his lawyer is not absolute but limited in its scope.
Section 126 prescribes the limits of the two provisos.[25] The use of the word
.shall. in S. 126 indicates that the prohibition is of mandatory
character.[26] Also the privilege embodied in S. 126 is not liable to melt down
on the principle of waiver of acquiescence.[27]Section 126 is intended for the
protection of the client and not of the lawyer.
Unless the client waives the privilege, the counsel cannot be compelled to give
evidence against him so long as the case does not fall within the exception
clause.[28]However, it was stated in a case that the privilege contained in S.
126 of the Indian Evidence Act, 1872 is not an absolute privilege but only a
conditional one. The lawyer is entitled to and is obliged also, to speak to the
said communication if his client expressly consents to do so. The words in S.
126 .unless with his client.s express consent for the disclosure of any
communication made by him to his lawyer.[29]
Also, where the counsel for an accused recorded the statement of the witnesses
recorded by the court in extenso to prepare himself for an effective
cross-examination of the witness, and those notes contained instructions given
by the client, the instructions given by the client being privileged under S.
126, the counsel for the accused could not be compelled to show notes to the
court.[30]
Now, with respect to S. 129, the case of
Bustros v. White[31] is
regarded as the leading case upon the subject of discovery under the new
practice and has been followed in India in the case of Wallace v.
Jefferson.[32] In this case it was observed. In
Bustros v. White[33] it was
decided a court of appeal consisting of eight judges that a judge has no
discretion as to refusing to allow the production of documents in possession of
a party to the suit relating to the matter in question, provided the documents
are not privileged.[34]
Section 130 of the Civil Procedure Code would appear to
have been copied from the above rule, and therefore it is advisable to adopt the
English ruling as to its construction. As the defendants affidavit admitted that
the documents in question related to the matter in dispute, the only question
which had to be determined was whether they were privileged.[35] They consisted
of two or three telegrams or letters, all of which passed between the plaintiff
in London and his agent in Bombay. It was said that they were confidential
communication between principals and their agents. But the mere circumstances
that communications are confidential does not render them privileged as laid
down in the case of Anderson v. Bank of British Columbia.[36]
Also in the case of
Umbica Churn Sen v. Bengal Spinning and Weaving Co.[37] , it
was held that where a party refers to a document in the pleadings as the source
of his own information and knowledge of facts relevant to the suit and then sets
up those facts by way of answer to plaintiff’s claim, he cannot afterwards
attempt to make the case that the document are confidential and intended merely
for his legal advisers or for the purpose only of evidence in the case.[38]
English Law Relating To The Provision
Under the common law one of the most important grounds on which access to
evidence can be refused is that the evidence in question is protected is
protected by legal professional privilege.[39] This doctrine gives legal
recognition to a person’s interest in maintaining the secrecy of confidential
communications in connection with his legal affairs.
The doctrine for most
purposes, its scope and limits are determined by the common law, however the
Parliament had given the privilege statutory expression for certain
purposes. [40] Under S. 10(1) of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act, 1984
(PACE) states that ¡°items subject to legal privilege means,[41]
- Communications between a professional legal advisor and his client or
any person representing his client made in connection with the giving of
legal advice to the client;[42]
- Communications between a professional legal advisor and his client or
any person representing his client or between such an advisor or his client
or any such representative and any other person made in connection with or
in contemplation of legal proceedings and for the purpose of such
proceedings; and
- Items enclosed with or referred to in communications and madei.
- In connection with the giving of legal advice, or
- In connection with or in contemplation of legal proceedings and for the
purposes of such proceedings, when they are in the possession of a person
who is entitled to possession of them
This section gives effect to two forms of privilege under common law. One form
protects communication between a client and a lawyer made in connection with a
purpose of the client obtaining or receiving legal advice from the
lawyer.[43]
This is sometimes referred to as lawyerclient privilege, or legal
advice privilege to distinguish it from the other form of legal professional
privilege known as litigation privilege. Litigation privilege protects
communications between a client or the clients lawyer, and a third party made
for the dominant purpose of the client obtaining or receiving advice or
information in connection with litigation that is in existence or is
contemplated as a definitive prospect.[44]
Under both forms the privileges is that of the client, not the lawyer or the
third party. The privilege gives the client a right to refuse to disclose a
privileged communication,[45] a right to refuse to give evidence about it and a
right that a lawyer (or the third party) shall not be compelled to disclose or
give evidence about it without the client’s consent.[46] The lawyer owes a
corresponding duty to the client not to disclose a privileged communication
without the clients consent. Such consent can be freely given or withheld. If
the client does disclose or give evidence about a privileged communication, or
consents to the lawyer (or a third party) doing so, would waive the privilege.
Legal Advice Privilege
With respect to the first type of privilege under common law, this type of
privilege has been recognized for centuries. According to Wigmore,[47] the
earliest reference appear in the late sixteenth century when cases were reported
holding that solicitors and counsel were exempt from examination touching the
matter on which they were acting for the client. However, in this early period
the court regarded the privilege as that of the lawyer and not the client.
The
modern form of the privilege was settled in the nineteenth century as the courts
of equity refined their process of pre-trial discovery. A series of leading
cases[48]established two propositions that are crucial for an accurate
identification of the modern rationales for the privilege. The first one being
that the privilege is that of the client rather than lawyer, while the second
one being that privilege attaches to confidential communication in connection
with a purpose of legal advice irrespective of whether litigation is in
existence or contemplated.
However, there are a number of situations in which a claim of lawyer-client
privilege will or may fail, despite the fact that the claim relates to a
communication between a lawyer and client. The first situation is where the
communication is in furtherance of a crime or fraud on the part of the client.
In this case it is more accurate to say not that the privilege is lost, but that
it Ch. App. 361;
Anderson v. Bank of British Columbia (1876) 2 Ch.D. 644. never
arises in the first place. In the second situation privilege does not does not
arise but the client subsequently waives the privilege. In the third situation
the client has not waived the privilege but the third party has nonetheless
acquired possession of the original or a copy of a privileged document, or is
otherwise in a position to give evidence of a privileged communication.
Finally, it is considered to what extent, if at all, a court may order
disclosure of privileged communication in order to protect an interest that the
court regards as having a higher priority.
Litigation Privilege
With respect to the type of privilege, litigation privilege protects material
coming into existence for the purpose of litigation to which the client is a
party. Clearly, this may include material that would in any event be covered by
legal advice privilege, such as the clients correspondence with his solicitor
about the conduct of litigation. Litigation privilege like legal advice
privilege also covers confidential work done by the clients legal advisors on
behalf of the client, such as legal research, counsels notes, and draft opinions
and so on.
However, litigation privilege is wider than legal advice privilege in one major
respect. It extends privilege to confidential communications by the client or
the lawyer with third parties for the dominant purpose of acquiring advice or
information in connection with the litigation. Such communications typically
include witness statements, proofs of evidence, expert reports and so.
Further, the rules relating to communications in furtherance of crime or fraud,
waiver and secondary evidence are the same as for legal advice privilege.
Section 126 Of The Indian Evidence Act, 1872 And Its Relation With Section 91 Of The Code Of Criminal
Procedure, 1973
Section 91 (1) of the CrPc 1973 provides that whenever any court considers that
the production of any document is necessary or desirable for the purpose of any
inquiry, trial or other proceeding under the CrPc such court may summon the
person in whose possession or power such documents is believed to be, and
require him to attend and produce it.
The discretion conferred by the section on
the court is an absolute one, the only condition for its exercise being that, in
the opinion of the court, the production of the document is necessary or
desirable for the purposes of the inquiry, trial or other proceedings before the
court.
Nothing in that section affects ss. 123 and 124 of Evidence Act. The provisions
of this section cannot, however, be relied upon to negative the existence of the
power of the court to make an order under S. 91(1) of the CrPc.
The Court in an appropriate case can order under S. 91, which would override the
provisions of S. 126. It cannot be urged that an order under S. 91(1) is illegal
merely because it violates the privilege conferred by this section. It is true
that, in making an order under S. 91(1), the court exercises a judicial
discretion, and ordinarily it would not, in the exercise of its discretion, make
an order which violates the privilege conferred by S. 126. But it cannot be
urged that no order can be made under S. 91(1), which infringes the privilege of
professional communication embodied in S. 126.[49]
It seems that the power of the court to make an order under S. 91(1) is not
limited by the provisions of S. 126, but the discretion under S. 91(1) is a
judicial discretion and it should not ordinarily be exercised in such a way as
to conflict with the privilege against disclosure conferred by S. 126.[50]
However, it is laid down that S. 91(3) of the CrPc exempts the documents which
are protected under S. 123 and 124 but not under S. 126. Therefore in criminal
cases the protection under S. 126 afforded to communications by client to lawyer
cannot be availed of against an order to produce the document; the document must
be produced, and the under section 162, it will be for the court after
inspection of the documents if it deems fit, to consider and decide any
objections regarding its production and admissibility.[51]
Conclusion and Suggestions
Hence, to conclude, as already laid down that in general S. 126-129 deal with
the law relating to professional communications between clients and legal
advisors or their clerks. A lawyer in under a moral obligation to respect the
confidence reposed in him and not disclose communications which have been made
to him in professional confidence i.e. in the course andor the purpose of his
employment, by or on behalf of his clients, or to state the course of conditions
of documents with which he has become acquainted in the course of his
professional employment, without the consent of his client.
This section gives
legal sanction to this obligation. The question of privilege arises only when
either the advocate or his client are asked to disclose the professional
communication made between them. When the communication is in the form of
writing and is made known to others, there is no .confidentiality. for either
the client or the advocate claiming privilege.
The foundation of this rule, as posited is not difficult to discover. It is not
on account of any particular importance which the law attributes to the business
of legal professors, or any particular disposition to afford them protection.
But it is out of regard to the interest of justice which cannot be upheld, and
to the administration of justice, which cannot go on, without the aid of men
skilled in jurisprudence, in the practice of the courts, and in those matters
affecting rights and obligations, which form the subject of all judicial
proceedings.
If the privilege did not exist at all, everyone would be thrown
upon his own legal resources. If deprived of all professional assistance, a man
would not venture to consult a skillful person, or would only dare to tell his
counselor half his case truthfully.
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