Legal professional privilege

(1) A legal adviser or his client shall not be compelled to disclose any confidential communication, oral or written, which passed between them, directly or indirectly through an agent of either, if such communication was made for the purpose of obtaining or giving legal advice. (2) The communication must have been made to or by the legal adviser in his professional capacity or by the client while the relationship of client and legal adviser subsisted, whether or not litigation was pending or contemplated, to entitle the client to claim privilege from disclosure. (3) No claim of privilege from disclosure shall be allowed if the communication between a client and his legal adviser was made for the purpose of committing a fraud, crime or other wrongful act. (4) “Legal adviser” means counsel or attorney-at-law.