Former Nissan Motor Chairman Carlos Ghosn's defense lawyers fled to Lebanon in the Middle East, saying it was illegal for the Tokyo Regional Prosecutor's Office to search for a lawyer's office. I filed a lawsuit seeking.
Eight people, including Attorney Junichiro Hironaka, who was in charge of the defense of former Nissan Chairman Carlos Ghosn, filed the proceedings.
In January, Hironaka's office was searched by the Tokyo District Prosecutor's Office for the case in which former chairman Ghosn fled to Lebanon in the Middle East.
At that time, although the search was refused based on the "right to refuse seizure" permitted by law to protect the client's secret, it is illegal for the Special Investigation Department to force the search, and the country has about 3 million. I am seeking compensation for the yen.
Attorneys Hironaka and his colleagues argued that the "right to refuse seizure" was one of the most important rights for lawyers guaranteed by the Constitution, and that the search caused great damage to the trust of clients and the public and caused mental distress. doing.
Attorney Hironaka, who met, said, "I would like to prove that the same illegal investigation cannot be done by clarifying the meaning of'the right to refuse seizure'."