Explainer
What stays between you and your advocate
Professional communications with an advocate are protected under section 132 of the Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam, 2023. What that covers, and what it doesn't.
An advocate may not disclose what a client tells them in the course of the engagement, or the advice given, without the client's consent. The Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam, 2023 carries this rule forward from the old Evidence Act.
The protection attaches once there is an engagement. That is why a website form is not the place to set out the facts of your matter.
General information only, written for a website template; not legal advice.
This note is general information as at 10 July 2026. It isn't advice for any particular case; the law may have changed since.