Can litigation privilege be claimed over copies of litigation documents?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from McCarthy v City of North Vancouver, 2021 BCSC 2517 (CanLII):
Litigation privilege may be claimed over copies of documents, the originals of which may not be privileged, that are included in a collection of documents that was assembled for the dominant purpose of litigation: Huang v. Silvercorp Metals Inc., 2017 BCSC 795, at para. 210.
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