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suspected and of his spouse, parents and children). Neglect or failure
to comply with a requirement under this clause will be an offence under
subclause (3).
21.
Clause 15 deals with legal advisers who, in that capacity,
may be in possession of information regarding the affairs of their clients
which is relevant to an inquiry under this Bill. As a general rule, what
a legal adviser, in his professional capacity, learns from his client is
privileged from disclosure, because of the need for full and for full and
unreserved dealings between client and lawyer.
22. Although this privilege will not protect from disclosure
communications made in furtherance of any crime, whether the legal adviser
was a party to, or ignorant of, the illegal object, its protection is
generally displaced only by definite evidence of illegality adduced in
judicial proceedings. Consequently, the position of legal advisers in
possession of privileged information which may be required for the purpose
of the investigation of an alleged offence under this Bill will be
regulated by clause 15, which preserves the general privilege, save for
certain exceptions expressly dealt with in the clause.
23.
In the absence of such a clause, persons might evade discovery
by getting a solicitor to deal with the proceeds of corrupt transactions,
relying on the rule against disclosure of privileged information, The
clause is not intended as a means of finding out what instructions
an accused haş gizonte, his legal advisers for the purpose of defending.
himself.
24.
Clauses 16 and 17 regulate the entry and search of premises
by persons conducting investigations, the former clause being
concerned with the premises of public bodies and the latter with other
premises. Lawyers' offices are not liable to entry and search under
these provisions.
25. Clause 18 will empower a magistrate to require any person who,
in the course of an investigation, is about to leave the Colony, to
furnish bail or to commit him to prison, until he furnishes bail, for up
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