Solicitor-Client Privilege is the cornerstone of the lawyer-client relationship. Confidentiality and loyalty are fundamental to the relationship between a lawyer and a client. Legal advice cannot be given and justice cannot be done unless clients have a large measure of freedom to discuss their affairs with their lawyer. Lawyers at all times shall hold in strict confidence all information concerning the business and affairs of the client acquired in the course of the professional relationship and cannot divulge any such information unless expressly or impliedly authorized by the client or required by the law to do so.