What privilege exists to communications to counsel from the client's agent?
Saskatchewan, Canada
The following excerpt is from International Minerals & Chemical Corp. et al. v. Commonwealth Insurance Co. et al., 1990 CanLII 7442 (SK QB):
The privilege extends to communications to counsel from the client's agent. In this respect the court in Wheeler v. Le Marchant (1881), 50 L.J.(Ch.) 793; 17 Ch. D. 675, stated at p. 795: "... The actual communication to the solicitor by the client is, of course, protected, and it is equally protected whether that communication is made by the client in person or by an agent on behalf of the client, and whether made to the solicitor in person or to a clerk or subordinate of the solicitor, who acts in his place and under his direction. ..."
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