What is a privileged occasion?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Corney v. Corney, 1996 CanLII 8567 (BC SC):
10 At p.334 of Adam v. Ward (supra) a privileged occasion is one where: ... the person who makes a communication has an interest or a duty, legal, social, or moral, to make it to the person to whom it is made, and the person to whom it is made, ... has a corresponding interest or duty to receive it.
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