Does the term "solicitor-client privilege" need to be used by the legislature to abrogate privilege?
Ontario, Canada
The following excerpt is from Auditor General of Ontario v. Laurentian University of Sudbury, 2022 ONSC 109 (CanLII):
The Auditor submits that a legislature does not necessarily have to use the term “solicitor-client privilege” in order to abrogate the privilege. An abrogation of privilege can be clear, explicit, and unequivocal where the legislature uses another expression that can be interpreted as referring unambiguously to the privilege: Lizotte v. Aviva Insurance Co. of Canada, 2016 SCC 52, at para. 61.
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