Does a personal representative have a duty to deliver a legal file to the personal representative of the deceased?
Nova Scotia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Dumke v. Conrad, 2019 NSSC 310 (CanLII):
The respondent points to Baker v. Baker Estate, 2018 NSSC 83, as authority that the privilege rests in the personal representative upon the client’s death and the lawyer must deliver any of the deceased’s property to the personal representative, including the legal file.
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