Can defence counsel breach solicitor/client privilege?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from R. v. Chow, 2001 BCSC 1785 (CanLII):
Defence counsel submit that once solicitor/client privilege is breached, prejudice should be assumed or inferred. As one American authority, the State v. Garza, [2000] WA-QL 241 (Q.L.); 994 P.2d 868, 2000 (Wash. App. Div. 3) stated at paragraph 24:
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