Law Council head accepts lawyer-client spying as 'inevitable'

February, 28 2014

Both the Law Council of Australia and the American Bar Association have accepted that spying by government authorities on lawyer-client relationships is inevitable.

Australian and American lawyers have accepted that government spying is inevitable. Rena Schild

Their public acceptance follows the revelations that an Australian authority was monitoring communications between a US law firm and the Indonesian government when it was in trade discussions with Australia. Law Council president Michael Colbran QC said: 'In the course of their activities intelligence agencies will inevitably, from time to time, access and record privileged information.' Source: The Australian