The Criminal Law Journal of India Journal March 15 1907

If the client were forbidden to fully state his case to his counsel except at the peril of having the attorney produced as a witness by the opposing party to prove the statements or admissions this made the busness of the attorney and the interest of the client would be materially hapered. [...] It is regarded for the benefit of the client alone and if the client should elect to waive the privilege the attorney will rrot be permitted to insist on the protection. [...] It will be seen at a glance that the rule of privilege is now of even greater importance than formerly by reason of the broadening and extension of the rules governing the production of evidence witli reference to the testimony of the party to be affected. [...] The mere fact that the person to whom the statment is made is a lawyer is not of itself sufficient for the very substruture of the rule itself is the protection of those and those only who seek the aid of a lawyer's experience and learning in the law for the purpose of enlightenment and guidance. [...] (I am speaking now of the common law) of any given number of children born in Enland wero 11)unished by hanging when people were hanged for the most triviil offences and when all the machinery of the law was in the hands of the Government and directed against the individual so that the one thing that had to be done was to protect the individual.