Article: Developments regarding the professional legal privilege of notaries public
The article provides an overview of recent developments regarding the professional legal privilege of notaries public and other legal professionals. In inter alia covers the “Wet verruiming mogelijkheden bestrijding financieel-economische criminaliteit” (the new Dutch law increasing the (legal) possibilities to combat financial-economic crime), recent case law and the debate in parliament on professional legal privilege in general. According to the author, it is clear that in the name of combatting crime, authorities are banging on the doors of professional legal privilege in the hope that behind it, the key to preventing crime can be found.
Jurjan Geertsma is attorney-at-law and partner at JahaeRaymakers. He frequently assists notaries public in criminal and disciplinary proceedings.