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You arrived at this page by selecting:Sometimes the law affects the duty of confidentiality.
For example, sometimes the law requires a lawyer to make a disclosure to the law enforcement authorities. The same law then frequently insists that the lawyer does not tell you that this has been done, and/or holds up working for you after it has been done but without telling you why.
Also, in court cases involving children, all documents are entirely confidential, and if you disclose them to anybody who you shouldn't then you can end up going to jail for contempt of court. And only the court can overrule this confidentiality. Lawyers cannot.
In any litigation (not just concerning children) any documents that come into a party's possession because they have been produced by the other side for the purpose of the litigation cannot be used for any purpose other than the litigation itself except by special permission of the Judge. lawyers themselves are also subject to this restriction and cannot waive it, only the judge can waive it.
Lawyers should always do their best to comply with the law in good faith. Where they do so they will incur no liability to the client, irrespective of whether they were right in point of law, and the client must indemnify the lawyer against any claim from any person resulting from this.
