Webinar „Professional Secrecy and Legal Professional Privilege. An International View” – October 28, 2024

On 28th October 2024 AEA-EAL Deontology Committee under its Chair and AEA-EAL Vice-President Nielson Sánchez-Stewart, organized an online webinar dedicated to the problems of professional secrecy and legal professional privilege.

The event attracted more than 120 registered particiapants from various countries and jurisdictions.

The webinar was opened by AEA-EAL President David Asatiani, who welcomed all the participants and addressed the importance of the topics to be discussed.

The webinar speakers made the following interesting interventions:

Iain G. Mitchell KC – What is the scope of Legal Professional Privilege and Professional Secrecy and why do they exist?

Jędrzej Klatka – Legal activities covered by professional secret
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Jean-Louis Collart – Penalties for violation
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Alex Tallon – Confidentiality of correspondence between lawyers
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Vladimir Palamarciuc – Professional secret of in-house lawyers

Nielson Sánchez-Stewart – Professional secret and money laundering
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The presentations were followed by a vivid discussion which concluded with the announcement of the another webinar to be held by the Deontology Committee.