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Title

Attorney-client privilege and constitutional rights for protection of privacy and for information

Authors

Makarova Zinaida Valentinovna

PhD Law, Professor of the Department of Constitutional and Administrative Law, South Ural State University, Chelyabinsk, Russian Federation. 76, Lenin Ave., Chelyabinsk, Russia.

E-mail: kiap@susu.ac.ru.

Minbaleev Aleksey Vladimirovich

PhD Law, Professor of the Department of Constitutional and Administrative Law, South Ural State University, Chelyabinsk, Russian Federation. 76, Lenin Ave., Chelyabinsk, Russia.

E-mail: alexmin@bk.ru.

Section

Point of view

Issue

1/2015

Page

188-191

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342.72/.73:002 + 347.965.3

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Abstract

The paper analyzes the characteristics of one of the professional secrecy in the system of restricted information — attorney-client privilege. The term ‘attorney-client privilege’ defines the legal prohibition to disclose information obtained by the lawyer in connection with the performance of their professional duties. attorney-client privilege acts as a guarantee of the constitutional rights of the suspect for protection of the constitutional rights of citizens for protection of privacy. The mode of secrecy, including a attorney-client privilege, is the limitation of the constitutional right for information, as it is the legal means of limitation of seeking, receiving, and distributing information. Attorney-client privilege restricts the right for disclosing information obtained by the lawyer in connection with the performance of their professional duties.

Keywords

attorney-client privilege, constitutional rights, the right for information, the right for privacy.

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