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This article starts in an unfortunate way.

It says "Legal Professional Privilege is at the very heart of the relationship solicitors have with our clients"

I do not agree.

Legal Professional Professional Privilege is at the heart of the relationship between the citizen and the state

It is the way in which the state guarantees the citizen the freedom to speak freely to an officer of the supreme court safe in the knowledge that officer will act first and foremost in the interests of justice and his/her duty to the court and in return for doing so the state grants that officer the right not to disclose what has been disclosed to him/her.

By the state trusting its officer in that way, the officer takes a heavy burden of acting within the professional rules of his/her office and to represent the client's interests as best he/she can.

If those who cannot bring themselves to trust that ancient privilege cannot or will not understand it then God help them if ever they need that privacy.

If any solicitor of the supreme court of England & Wales abuses that privilege then either the Law Society has contaminated the profession with the kind of person we do not want by failing to vet or such solicitor has become rotten sometime during his/her carreer and the rest of us must rid ourselves of such an undesirable by all means

I firmly believe this to be an honourable profession, and such rotten eggs as we have are few but those we have must go.

if such a fundamental right of a citizen is removed we demean ourselves and we suggest the tyrants among us are more powerful than the honourable.

Who will watch those who watch us?