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Home > Our Insights > Daniel Watt and Sara Mahaney in Gard Update: Legal privilege in the corporate context in Canada
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Daniel Watt and Sara Mahaney in Gard Update: Legal privilege in the corporate context in Canada

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April 6, 2017

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  • Daniel Watt, Partner
  • Sara Mahaney, McInnes Cooper Alum

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Adding a third jurisdiction to Gard Update’s comparison between privilege in the corporate context under U.S. and English law, McInnes Cooper lawyers Daniel Watt and Sara Mahaney’s Letter to the Editor – Legal privilege in the corporate context in Canada, as published in Gard Update, April 2017, explain that in Canada, solicitor-client privilege in the corporate context more closely resembles U.S. law than it does English law.

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    Social media platforms, like Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube, Facebook and GooglePlus, arguably have more followers and are more closely…

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    Mar 30, 2017

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    Jan 25, 2017

    Doing business with the public sector creates an often overlooked – but very real – risk that the confidential information a business…

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    Jan 20, 2017

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    Sep 19, 2016

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    Sep 12, 2016

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    Aug 15, 2016

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    Aug 9, 2016

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    Jun 20, 2016

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    Jun 17, 2016

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    In what appears to be the first case of the conviction of a front line supervisor under section 217.1 of the Criminal Code and sentencing to a…

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    Jan 18, 2016

    On January 14, 2016, the Ontario Superior Court decided that Canadians have a clear privacy interest in their records of their cellular…

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    Jul 29, 2015

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    Jul 21, 2015

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    Jul 10, 2015

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    Most people know that a company itself has OHS obligations, and that it risks corporate liability if it violates those obligations. However, not…

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    Jun 8, 2015

    On June 4, 2015, the NS Court of Appeal decided the value of future CPP disability benefits is deductible under the SEF 44 family protection…

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  • Changes to NB Rules of Court Effective October 1, 2014 Benefit Successful Party

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    On November 7, 2013, the SCC decided police require specific authorization in a search warrant to search the data in a computer because of the…

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    Mr. Cole was a high school teacher with an employer owned and issued laptop computer.  He also used it for incidental personal purposes, which…

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    In March 2011, the Ontario Court of Appeal found that an employee had a limited expectation of privacy in the contents of a work computer. The…

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    Note: Click here to read an updated version of this Legal Update in Cloud Computing: A Privacy FAQ as seen in as seen in CCCA Magazine, Spring…

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