We don't know for sure: http://hudoc.echr.coe.int/sites/fra/pages/search.aspx?i=001-115377#{"itemid":["001-115377"] http://hudoc.echr.coe.int/sites/fra/pages/se

We don't know for sure: http://hudoc.echr.coe.int/sites/fra/pages/search.aspx?i=001-115377#{"itemid":["001-115377"] http://hudoc.echr.coe.int/sites/fra/pages/search.aspx?i=001-...} Attorney-client-privilege is an English/American legal term with a lot of meanings to it shaped by the courts. In the EU, different member states have rules regarding confidentiality between lawyers and clients. Usually, the right to confidentiality is not absolute (the lawyer may have an obligation to speak in certain situations). For a while lawyers hoped that something like attorney-client-privilege could be interpreted into the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms. With the ruling above this seems less likely.