Cap. 12 чл. 588Privileged communications.

(1) No advocate or legal procurator without the consent of the client, and no clergyman without the consent of the person making the confession, may be questioned on such circumstances as may have been stated by the client to the advocate or legal procurator in professional confidence in reference to the cause, or as may have come to the knowledge of the clergyman under the seal of confession or loco confessionis.

(2) Unless by order of the court, no accountant, medical practitioner or social worker, psychologist or marriage counsellor may be questioned on such circumstances as may have been stated by the client to the said person in professional confidence or as may have come to his knowledge in his professional capacity.

(3) This privilege extends to the interpreter who may have been employed in connection with such confidential communications.