The above provision of the law is very clear and plain. In no circumstance can it be interpreted that the date of hearing endorsed in Exhibit “A2” which is a date fixed by the court for the hearing of the substantive case is a privileged communication between counsel and client. This provision of the law is enacted for the protection of the client and not of counsel and is based on the impossibility of conducting legal business without professional assistance, and on necessity, in order to render that assistance effectual, of securing free and unreserved intercourse between the two. See Jones v. Great Central Railing (1910) AC 5. Privilege should not be invoked to subvert the machinery of justice.
— Ogwuegbu JSC. Oshunrinde v Akande (1996) – SC.110/1990