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This decision provides important insight into your property law. Here is what it changes for you.

The facts

A person under formal investigation who is not a lawyer and uses, for the exclusive needs of their company, premises leased by a nominee who is also a lawyer, who has installed neither their office nor their home there, which are located at other addresses, and who is not their counsel, is not entitled to allege a breach of Articles 56-1 and 100-7 of the Code of Criminal Procedure concerning the formalities designed to protect professional secrecy, applicable to searches of a lawyer's office or home and to interception of that lawyer's telephone communications.

What the law says

This decision confirms the fundamental principles of property law.

Key points to remember

• Strictly comply with statutory time limits for appeals or legal remedies
• Keep all your supporting documents (title deeds, instruments, correspondence)
• Plan ahead: preventive advice always costs less than litigation

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