In what circumstances will a family law firm be able to conduct litigation in secret?
Ontario, Canada
The following excerpt is from Spirou v. Chant, 2012 ONSC 52 (CanLII):
In MacDonald Estate v. Martin, 1990 CanLII 32 (SCC), [1990] 3 S.C.R. 1235, at paragraph 49 (“MacDonald Estate”), of the decision of Dickson C.J., the court speaks of reasonable avenues including institutional mechanisms such as Chinese walls and codes of silence to ensure no leakage of information from the “tainted” lawyer.
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