{"id":72218,"date":"2025-08-05T07:54:21","date_gmt":"2025-08-05T02:24:21","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2025-08-05T07:54:21","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T02:24:21","slug":"attorney-client-privilege-protects-advocates-from-search-and-seizure-without-prima-facie-evidence-under-applicable-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/?p=72218","title":{"rendered":"Attorney-client privilege protects advocates from search and seizure without prima facie evidence under applicable rules"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Attorney-client privilege protects advocates from search and seizure without prima facie evidence under applicable rules<br \/>Case-Laws<br \/>GST<br \/>The HC emphasized the inviolability of attorney-client privilege, holding that search and seizure of an advocate&#39;s office, including the CPU and documents, cannot be conducted without prima facie evidence implicating the advocate beyond mere representation. The Court ruled that absent material indicating the advocate&#39;s personal involvement in alleged ill<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">=  =  =  =  =  =  =  =<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong>Plain text (Extract) only<\/strong><BR>For full text:-<a href=\"https:\/\/www.taxtmi.com\/highlights?id=91276\">Visit the Source <\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">=  =  =  =  =  =  =  =<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Attorney-client privilege protects advocates from search and seizure without prima facie evidence under applicable rulesCase-LawsGSTThe HC emphasized the inviolability of attorney-client privilege, holding that search and seizure of an advocate&#8217;s office, <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=72218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72218\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}