Brussels, 14/09/2010 (Agence Europe) - With its judgment in case C-550/07 P delivered on Tuesday 14 September, the Court ruled that professional secrecy and the confidentiality of communications between lawyers and clients can only be invoked by “independent lawyers”, “not bound to the client by a relationship of employment” and in the exercise of “the client's rights of defence”. Thus, it follows that the “requirement of independence means the absence of any employment...