50 Privilege relating to information of commission of offences. Evidence Cap 80 [2009]   133. (1) No judge, magistrate or police officer shall be compelled to say whence he got any information as to the commission of any offence, and no revenue officer shall be compelled to say whence he got any information as to the commission of any offence against the law relating to the public revenue or to income tax, customs or excise. (2) For the purposes of this section, “revenue officer” means any officer employed in or about the business of any branch of the public revenue, including any branch of the income tax, customs or excise departments. Privilege of advocates. 134. (1) No advocate shall at any time be permitted, unless with his client’s express consent, to disclose any communication made to him in the course and for the purpose of his employment as such advocate, by or on behalf of his client, or to state the contents or condition of any document with which he has become acquainted in the course and for the purpose of his professional employment, or to disclose any advice given by him to his client in the course and for the purpose of such employment: Provided that nothing in this section shall protect from disclosure(a) any communication made in furtherance of any illegal purpose; (b) any fact observed by any advocate in the course of his employment as such, showing that any crime or fraud has been committed since the commencement of his employment, whether the attention of such advocate was or was not directed to the fact by or on behalf of his client. (2) The protection given by subsection (1) shall continue after the employment of the advocate has ceased. Privilege of interpreters, and advocates’ clerks and servants. Waiving of privilege of advocates, etc.   135. The provisions of section 134 shall apply to interpreters, and the clerks or servants of advocates. 136. (1) If any party to a suit or proceeding gives evidence therein at his own instance or otherwise, he shall not be deemed to have consented thereby to such disclosure as is mentioned in section 134 (1). (2) If any party to a suit or proceeding calls any advocate, www.kenyalaw.org