Is privileged communications between a lawyer and a client privileged?
Ontario, Canada
The following excerpt is from Drake Holdings Ltd. v. Chubb Insurance Company of Canada, 2018 ONSC 4494 (CanLII):
Not every communication between a lawyer and a client is privileged. The communication must be for the purpose of seeking or giving legal advice and must be intended by the parties to be confidential: McClure, at para. 36. However, given the importance of the privilege, any uncertainty as to the application of the privilege should be resolved in favour of protecting confidentiality: Descoteaux v. Mierzwinski, 1982 CanLII 22 (SCC), [1982] 1 S.C.R. 860, at p. 875. (ii) The Documents in This Case
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