Professional Secrecy of Lawyers in Europe

This book examines the lawyer's duty of professional secrecy (also known as the attorney-client privilege) in the twenty-seven Member States of the European Union, the three Member States of the European Economic Area, and Switzerland. It provides valuable information for those working on transactions or litigations which involve several countries ? they can use this book to find out to what extent any information shared with or any advice received from a lawyer is protected in each of these countries.

Foreword Jean-Pierre Buyle and Dirk Van Gerven; 1. Professional secrecy in Europe Dirk Van Gerven; 2. The CCBE rules on professional secrecy Georges-Albert Dal; 3. Austria Michael Kutschera; 4. Belgium Dirk Van Gerven; 5. Bulgaria Kina Chuturkova, Raina Dimitrova and Mihail Vishanin; 6. Cyprus Alexandros Tsadiras; 7. Czech Republic Petr Cáp; 8. Denmark Lars Bo Langsted; 9. Estonia Katrin Kose; 10. Finland Petri Taivalkoski and Aini Juopperi; 11. France Sabine Du Granrut; 12. Germany Christian Dahns and Johannes Keller; 13. Greece Ilias Tompaidis and Konstantinos Voulgarakis; 14. Hungary János Bánáti; 15. Iceland Ólafur Arinbjörn Sigurosson and Sindri Guojónsson; 16. Ireland Liam Kennedy and Sarah Conroy; 17. Italy Antonella Brambilla; 18. Latvia Egils Radzins; 19. Liechtenstein Mario Frick; 20. Lithuania Akvile Bosaite and Karina Kuizinaite; 21. Luxembourg Marc Thewes; 22. Malta Max Ganado, Christine Borg and Thomas Cutts-Watson; 23. Netherlands Fokke Fernhout; 24. Norway John Christian Elden; 25. Poland Wojciech Marchwicki and Marek Nieduzak; 26. Portugal Ana Cristina Delgado; 27. Romania Gabriela Cacerea and Anca Mihailescu; 28. Slovakia Jozef Olej; 29. Slovenia Natasa Pipan Nahtigal and Tjasa Lahovnik; 30. Spain Nielson Sánchez Stewart; 31. Sweden Henrik Fieber and Minna Sjöstrand; 32. Switzerland Claudio Bazzani and Roman Richers; 33. United Kingdom Ronnie Fox, Shira Auerbach, Shirley Blair and Kirsteen Macdonald.