Collection Spotlight - June 3 2025

Do the complexities of solicitor-client privilege make you feel frustrated? Are you unclear about the finer details of confidential client communications? Or maybe you’re curious about all the different exceptions to privilege?

If so, then Solicitor-Client Privilege by Adam Dodek is the book for you!

  • This title can help you learn more about:    
  • The history and rationale of privilege   
  • Privilege and the professional legal adviser, including discussion on other types of  potential legal advisers like paralegals, notaries, tax accountants, immigration consultants, and more   
  • Various client types and confidential communications  
  • Different types of waivers, including express, partial, selective, limited, implied, and advanced   
  • Exceptions to privilege such as the "innocence at stake" exception and the "public safety" exception   
  • Privilege in civil litigation and administrative proceedings    
  • Privilege when it comes to corporations and governments   
  • And much more!

Solicitor-Client Privilege is available on the public access computers at all our Courthouse Libraries locations. Next time you’re in the library, search for the title in the library catalogue on the computer and click on the digital access link; this will take you straight to the digital title in Lexis Advance.

We also have this title available in print. If you want to borrow the book or request scans through our document delivery service, please contact us at librarian@courthouselibrary.ca or 1-800-665-2570.

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