Is attorney-client privilege applicable where information gleaned from a third party is the result of confidential communications between attorney and client?

California, United States of America


The following excerpt is from Olson v. Superior Court (People), 157 Cal.App.3d 780, 204 Cal.Rptr. 217 (Cal. App. 1984):

Evidence Code section 954 provides, pertinently, that a person "... has a privilege to refuse to disclose, and to prevent another from disclosing, a confidential communication between client and lawyer...." The attorney-client privilege is applicable where information gleaned from a third party is the result of confidential communications between attorney and client. (People v. Meredith (1981) 29 Cal.3d 682, 693, 175 Cal.Rptr. 612, 631 P.2d 46; People v. Collie, supra, 30 Cal.3d p. 61, fn. 15, 177 Cal.Rptr. 458, 634 P.2d 534.)

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