What is the case law on case-by-case privilege?
Alberta, Canada
The following excerpt is from Talisman Energy Inc v Flo-Dynamics Systems Inc, 2015 ABQB 561 (CanLII):
The leading case in the area of case-by-case privilege is Slavutych v. Baker, 1975 CanLII 5 (SCC), [1976] 1 S.C.R. 254. In that case a professor at a university provided in confidence a written report regarding a colleague who was applying for tenure. The university ultimately fired the professor for the intemperate language he used in his report.
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