Malawi

Criminal procedure and evidence code

PART VI
EVIDENCE IN CRIMINAL PROCEEDINGS

226. Confidential communications with legal practitioner

No person shall be compelled to disclose to the court or to the jury any confidential communication, which hastaken place between him and any legal practitioner advising or representing him unless he has offered himself as a witness or its giving evidence upon being required to do so under section 256 (1) or section 314 in which case he may be compelled to disclose any such communication as may appear to the court necessary to be known in order to explain any evidence which he has given and no other.

Keywords

Fair trial standards
Rights during trial - free communication with counsel



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