Can confidential communications between a client and his legal advisor be given in evidence?
Alberta, Canada
The following excerpt is from Coe v. Sturgeon General Hospital (District No. 100), 2000 ABQB 698 (CanLII):
In civil and criminal cases, confidential communications passing between a client and his legal advisor need not be given in evidence by the client and, without the client’s consent, may not be given in evidence by the legal advisor in the judicial proceedings (Descoteaux v. Mierzwinski, 1982 CanLII 22 (SCC), [1982] 1 S.C.R. 860 at 876).
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