What is considered to be informer privilege?
New Brunswick, Canada
The following excerpt is from M. A c. Drapeau et la Commission des valeurs mobilières du Nouveau-Brunswick, 2012 NBCA 73 (CanLII):
In Named Person v. Vancouver Sun, 2007 SCC 43, [2007] 3 S.C.R. 253, Bastarache J. outlined the procedure to follow in determining the existence of an informer privilege. In that case, a person subject to a request for extradition was testifying at a portion of his in camera extradition hearing when he advised the judge that he was a police informer. On that basis, he claimed informer privilege to prevent the media from having access to his activities as a police informant. He was not trying to keep the information out of the hands of the parties involved in the extradition hearing, because they already knew his identity, but rather from the media.
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