The Right to Counsel and the Protection of Attorney-Client Privilege in Criminal Proceedings, 1st ed. 2020
A Comparative View
Ius Comparatum - Global Studies in Comparative Law Series, Vol. 44

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The book provides an overview of the right to counsel and the attorney-client privilege in the following 12 jurisdictions: China, Germany, Greece, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey, UK and USA.

The right to counsel is a fundamental right providing the accused access to justice in criminal proceedings. Lawyers can only practice their profession properly if clients have complete trust in their lawyer?s discretion. This trust is safeguarded by the attorney-client privilege, which is an indispensable part of every constitutional state and one of the most important professional duties of a lawyer. It is of particular importance in criminal proceedings regarding the protection of the confidentiality of lawyer-client communications in the different procedural stages, coercive measures as well as the various duties and interests in play. However, the communications protected by attorney-client privilege vary greatly from country to country. With regard to criminal investigations in an increasingly globalised world, where sophisticated tools enable broad digital investigations, there is an urgent need to clarify how this fundamental right is protected at both the national and supranational level.

Each chapter explores the regulations, practices and recent developments in each jurisdiction and was written by highly qualified experts in the legal field ? from academia and practice alike. It identifies possible solutions and best practices, providing valuable insights for practitioners and law-making bodies alike regarding the actual protection (or lack thereof) of lawyer-client confidentiality in the pretrial and trial stage of criminal proceedings.



Right to Counsel and Confidentiality of Correspondence with Counsel as a Requirement of a Fair Trial in Japan.- Confidentiality of Correspondence with Counsel as a Requirement of a Fair Trial in Germany.- Confidentiality of Correspondence with Counsel as a Requirement of a Fair Trial in Italy.- Confidentiality of Correspondence with Counsel as a Requirement of a Fair Trial in Portugal.- Confidentiality of Attorney-Client Communications in China’s Criminal Justice System.- The Right to Counsel within Criminal Proceedings in Switzerland.- Confidentiality of Correspondence with Counsel as a Requirement of a Fair Trial in Poland.- Confidentiality of Attorney-Client Communications in the United States.- Confidentiality of correspondence with Counsel as a Requirement of a Fair Trial in Spain.- The Lawyer-Client Privilege in the Case-lLw of the ECtHR.- Protecting Confidentiality of Lawyer-Client Communications Worldwide. Comparative Study.
Lorena Bachmaier Winter
Professor of Law at Complutense University of Madrid. She holds a Law Degree (1989) and also in Political Science, specialization International Relations (1989), from the Complutense University Dr. iur. at Complutense University (1994), with award for the best doctoral thesis in public law.  In 2015 she was awarded the prestigious Luis Portero Human Rights Award (Granada Royal Academy of Jurisprudence) and an honorary doctorate (Perú). She has written extensively on comparative law, human rights and criminal procedure, and the EU area of justice. She has been visiting scholar and guest lecturer in numerous Universities and academic institutions worldwide. She has worked as an international expert for the Council of Europe and other international organisations in the field of human rights standards and the rule of law in transitional democracies.
 
 
Stephen C. Thaman
Stephen C. Thaman (J.D., University of California, Berkeley; Dr. iur., University of Freiburg, Germany) is Professor of Law Emeritus at Saint Louis University, USA. He is the author of “Comparative Criminal Procedure: A Casebook Approach” (Carolina Acad. Press, 2nd edn. 2008), editor of “World Plea Bargaining” (Carolina Acad. Press, 2010) and “Exclusionary Rules in Comparative Perspective” (Springer, 2013), and co-editor of “Comparative Criminal Procedure” (Elgar, 2016). He was an Assistant Public Defender in Alameda County, California, from 1976–1987.
 
 
Veronica Lynn
Lic. iur. Veronica Lynn studied law in Zurich, where she also completed internships and trained with major corporate law firms. She was admitted to the bar in Switzerland in 2016 while simultaneously being a doctoral student at the University of Zurich, writing her PhD thesis on the attorney-client privilege and working as an academic research assistant at the chair for crim

Addresses the confidentiality of attorney-client communications as a fair trial right in criminal proceedings

Analyses the right to confidential communications

Pursues a comparative approach