Our partners, Álvaro Anríquez y Ernesto Vargas, published in the [Revista Chilena de Derecho] of the [Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile] an essay whereby they propose theoretical foundations for characterizing the client-attorney privilege in Chile. They claim that the privilege is part of a wider institutional arrangement aiming to enable lawyers to fluently access the facts regarding which their services are engaged. Understanding this normative web requires to distinguish the client-attorney privilege from the lawyer’s confidentiality duty, by considering the former as a procedural immunity that enables lawyers to comply with the latter when the State demands them to provide information. Insofar as the privilege collides with the interest of the State to access information for law enforcement purposes, its scope must be narrower than that of the confidentiality duty We invite you to review the article at this link.
Article: Conceptual bases for a doctrine of professional secrecy of the lawyer in Chile
