Is a party's correspondence privileged?
Nova Scotia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Sheetharbour Offshore Development Inc. v. Tusket Mining Inc, 2005 NSSC 266 (CanLII):
In Thibodeau v. Thibodeau (supra), Nathanson, J., held that a series of letters that one of the parties sought to introduce in evidence in proof of an alleged agreement were privileged and not admissible since he found that there was no binding agreement and thus could not come within the exception.
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