Questione giuridica chiave
Whether the sealed documents from the appellants' law-office files had to be withheld because of attorney-client privilege.
Decisione estratta
The privilege was not established in a way that prevented disclosure; the public interest in investigating serious suspected tax offences prevailed, and the restrictions attached to use of the files sufficiently protected clients.
Motivazione estratta
The court relied on its earlier judgments in the same matter and held that the combination of administrator and lawyer functions made a clear separation between privileged and non-privileged material impossible in general; the privilege was invoked only generically and did not justify blocking the documents as a whole.