Title: Protection of privacy of communications between an enterprise and its internal legal advisor

Date: 01/13/2011

Subject: The Author comments on the case Akzo, in which the Court of Justice has examined the question of the protection of privacy of communications between an enterprise and its lawyers, excluding such protection in case the lawyer is an employee of the same enterprise. The author examines the consequences of such hypothesis also with regard to the reconstruction of the public role of the legal profession

Original language: Italian

Classification: Freedoms - Art. 8 Personal data: fairly processing - Personal data: consent - Personal data: access - Personal data: rectification - Personal data: independent authority

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