Solicitor-client privilege - Current situation and outlook

Conference

Friday 5 December 2025, 9am ~ 12pm
Campus Hannah Arendt / Amphitheatre AT06

This seminar is intended exclusively for Avignon University lawyers and law students.

---

As a fundamental guarantee of citizens' rights, lawyers' professional secrecy has undergone significant and recent changes. Organised by the Avignon and Carpentras Bars, the Master in Law and CER Droit, and involving practitioners and academics, this conference will provide an opportunity to take stock of these developments and identify their implications.

Programme :

9h - Welcoming participants

Bâtonnier Philippe CANO, member of the Avignon Bar
Bâtonnière Martine PENTZ, member of the Carpentras Bar
Agnès MAFFRE BAUGÉ, Professor of Private Law, University of Avignon

9h10 – Solicitor-client privilege: between intangible tradition and the challenges of modernityYves BONHOMMO, Member of the Carpentras Bar

9h30 - Discussion with the audience

9h50 – Protection of lawyer-client privilege in criminal proceedingsAlice MORNET, MCF in Private Law, University of Avignon

10h10 - Discussion with the audience

10h30 – Professional secrecy: tools and reflexes for the criminal lawyerTom BONNIFAY, member of the Marseilles Bar

10h50 - Discussion with the audience

11h10 – Professional secrecy in legal expenses insurance: issues and prospectsGuillaume Brunel, Contract teacher-researcher, Université d'Avignon

11h30 - Discussion with the audience

---

Speakers:

• Alice MORNET, Senior Lecturer in Private Law, University of Avignon
• Bâtonnier Yves BONHOMMO, Member of the Carpentras Bar
• Tom BONNIFAY, Member of the Marseilles Bar
• Guillaume BRUNEL, contract teacher-researcher, Université d'Avignon
• Bâtonnier Philippe CANO, member of the Avignon Bar