How have courts interpreted solicitor-client privilege in the context of copies?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Aselstine v. Glynn, 2015 BCSC 209 (CanLII):
Now, the claimant refers to the Hodgkinson v. Simms decision. I am going to give the CanLII site, because my page references are from the CanLII site. It is 1988 CanLII 181. In that case Chief Justice McEachern asked whether solicitor-client privilege extended to copies, and he reviewed a number of cases which say where copies of documents which are not otherwise privileged form part of the collection assembled by and at the request of the lawyer, the whole collection is privileged.
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