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Affirming 7-2 the acquittal of a Sask. defence counsel on a charge of obstruction of justice, SCC ruled that a lawyer charged with a crime can invoke the ‘innocence at stake’ exception to solicitor client privilege to seek access to their client’s privileged communications for use in the lawyer’s own defence: R. v. Fox, 2026 SCC 4.