The Confidential Relationships (Preservation) Law

The Confidential Relationships (Preservation) Law is sometimes referred to as the 'Secrecy Law'.
The CRPL criminalizes the unauthorized disclosure of confidential information of which professionals are obliged to protect. It also legislates ways in which information may be obtained by the local police or on behalf of police in another country where information is needed for the investigation or prosecution of serious crime.

The CRPL also provides that anyone who is required to give evidence or information which is defined as confidential under the Law, this person may apply to the Court for directions allowing him to do so. For example: if a Cayman professional was subpoenaed by the Court of a foreign country to give evidence there in criminal proceedings, the professional may apply for directions whether or not to do so and if so, on what, if any, conditions.

The Law provides the Cayman Court with the widest discretion in such cases, requiring only that the giving of the evidence be before a Court or tribunal and that it be shown to be in the 'interests of justice'. Those interests have been declared by the Courts to include the enforcement of the criminal laws of any country of the world.