Does solicitor-client privilege attach immediately when the confidential information is provided?
Ontario, Canada
The following excerpt is from Re Application by Immunity Applicant Witnesses at First Stage Hearing, 2018 ONSC 6301 (CanLII):
The privilege attaches immediately when the confidential information is provided. If it does not attach at the beginning of the process, the protection it provides would be illusory and could be lost – a result that would be absurd: Descoteaux v. Mierzwinski, 1982 CanLII 22 (SCC), [1982] 1 S.C.R. 860, at para. 57 (dealing with solicitor-client privilege).
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