Senate debates

Wednesday, 25 March 2015

Bills

Telecommunications (Interception and Access) Amendment (Data Retention) Bill 2015; In Committee

10:28 pm

Photo of Nick XenophonNick Xenophon (SA, Independent) Share this | Hansard source

This is further to the Attorney's contribution a couple of moments ago on the issue of the circumstances in which the communications, the metadata, of a lawyer and a lawyer's client or witnesses could be used. Can the Attorney assure us that the inferences the Law Institute of Victoria is concerned about would lead to an erosion of the general principle of legal professional privilege?

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