What is solicitor-client privilege and what is its scope?
Canada (Federal), Canada
The following excerpt is from Slansky v. Canada (Attorney General), 2011 FC 1467 (CanLII), [2013] 3 FCR 558:
Where solicitor-client privilege is found, it encompasses a broad range of communications between lawyer and client: The privilege, once established, is considerably broad and all-encompassing. In Descôteaux v. Mierzwinski, 1982 CanLII 22 (SCC), [1982] 1 S.C.R. 860, the scope of the privilege was described, at p. 893, as attaching “to all communications made within the framework of the solicitor-client relationship, which arises as soon as the potential client takes the first steps, and consequently even before the formal retainer is established. Pritchard v Ontario (Human Rights Commission), 2004 SCC 31 at para 16, [2004] 1 SCR 809 [Pritchard].
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