Can confidential communications between solicitor and client be privileged?
Saskatchewan, Canada
The following excerpt is from Wilson Estate, Re, 2000 SKQB 220 (CanLII):
In Geffen v. Goodman Estate, 1991 CanLII 69 (SCC), [1991] 2 S.C.R. 353, at p. 383, Wilson J. observed: . . .Thus, while at one time it was thought that the privilege belonged to the solicitor and not to his client, there is now no doubt that the privilege belongs to the client alone. One consequence of this is that confidential communications between solicitor and client can only be divulged in certain circumscribed situations. . . .
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