What is solicitor-client privilege and what is its impact on the law?
Canada (Federal), Canada
The following excerpt is from Charkaoui (Re), 2009 FC 546 (CanLII):
Solicitor-client privilege is now recognized not only as a substantive legal rule, but also as a “fundamental civil right”: Solosky v. The Queen, 1979 CanLII 9 (SCC), [1980] 1 S.C.R. 821.
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