According to his proposal advocates shall notify the competent Lawyers' Chamber if they encounter indications that a transaction is related to corruption, drug traffic, terrorism, illegal arms trade or undue application of public funds. At that time Mr Pint r considered that the British and Belgian rules on advocacy were most likely to be applied in Hungary. To wit, those countries have realised that the exaggeration of advocates confidence would only bring grist to the Mafia's mill. This proposal however has met the opposition of the Lawyers' Chambers. As Mr P ter B R NDY, General Secretary of Budapest Lawyers' Chamber has expounded to Figyelo the lifting of confidence would mean that the protection by counsel would be inexistent and the constitutional functioning of administration of justice would be prejudiced.
Confidence serves no the advocate, but the client.
It means, that there is at least one person who will surely not turn against the clients what he or she has set forth to the advocate. This body has recently been exploring in Hungary the measures that may be taken against money laundering. Mr P ter B R NDY disagrees in this case too with the lifting of confidence obligations binding the advocates, although he considers this proposal entirely different in its nature than the one concerning the lifting of confidence obligation in cases of corruption. Bankers' duty of secrecy has long been lifted in the case of money laundering. This offence however can be exposed by the lifting of bankers' duty of secrecy, because the money appears on the advocates bank account, that is the bank can perceive that an unusual cash-flow has occurred.