8.—(1) A person is not required by article 6 to produce or disclose a privileged communication.
(2) In paragraph (1) “privileged communication” means—
(a)communications between a professional legal adviser and a client of that adviser, or
(b)communications made in connection with or in contemplation of legal proceedings and for the purposes of those proceedings,
being communications which would in legal proceedings be protected from disclosure by virtue of any rule of law relating to the confidentiality of communications.