The protection of the professional secrecy applied to the relationship between lawyers and their clients.
First of all, before we start dealing with the core of the matter that will be presented and discussed here, it is necessary to raise certain understandings with legislative endorsements concerning the so-called "professional secrecy".
It is common knowledge that there are certain professions in which the secrecy existing in the relationship between the professional and the client is almost inherent to the trade by a wide range of factors, such as reliability, safety, marketing issues, among others.
The need for the aforementioned secrecy becomes more evident when the profession is related to the intimacy of the individual, a profession inserted in the field of the human sciences, such as psychology, for example. Instantly and obviously, it is assumed that the patient should, as a rule, rely on the professional he chose, trusting that his confidences will not be disclosed to others.
