ACCESS TO INFORMATION AND PRIVACY - Bars and grounds for refusal - Solicitor-client privilege

Law360 Canada ( August 28, 2019, 7:53 AM EDT) -- Application by the Ministry of the Attorney General of British Columbia for judicial review of the Information and Privacy Commissioner’s decision ordering the production of a document. The Canadian Constitution Foundation sought a document that recorded the interim legal costs of a Charter challenge to provisions of the Medicare Protection Act. The Ministry withheld production of the document on the basis of solicitor-client privilege. The Commissioner held that the document was subject to a rebuttable presumption of solicitor-client privilege, but that the presumption was rebutted....
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