There will be no absolute professional secrecy, an impregnable safe, as lawyers might have hoped in their wildest dreams.
The joint committee which concluded, Wednesday, the discussion of the law confidence carried by the Minister of Justice Eric Dupond-Moretti, with a few presentation efforts, confirms the version of the Senate.
The services of Bercy as well as the National Financial Prosecutor's Office (PNF), which have engaged in intense lobbying, can breathe.
Admittedly, article 3 of the new law engages in the marble of the code of criminal procedure a professional secrecy which does not concern only the defense of its clients, but also their advice.
Secrecy is therefore guaranteed for these two aspects of the lawyer profession.
But the new law provides for exceptions when the legislator considers the question of searches and wiretapping of law firms.
The Senate had set exemptions for financial offenses, to the chagrin of deputies who had
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