Does litigation privilege end when the litigation ends?
Ontario, Canada
The following excerpt is from Taylor v. Reid, 2022 ONSC 671 (CanLII):
This point was not argued. The authority for the proposition that litigation privilege ends when the litigation ends can be found at Lizotte v. Aviva Insurance Company of Canada, 2016 SCC 52, at para. 22.
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