Canada: Privilege

This AI Insights Quick Read series examines a growing risk for innovation-driven businesses: how routine generative AI use can weaken confidentiality, compromise legal review...

Navigating a transfer pricing audit in Canada requires understanding CRA's extensive verification powers, documentation requirements, and the critical importance of protecting attorney-client privilege. This guide examines the audit lifecycle from initial contact through conclusion, including functional interviews, information requests, and the consequences of non-compliance with CRA demands.

Note de la rédaction : Cet article fait suite à notre précédente analyse sur les pouvoirs de vérification élargis de l'ARC, dont celui d'exiger des témoignages écrits ou verbaux sous serment.

The Alberta Court of King's Bench, in Prosser v Industrial Alliance Insurance, 2024 ABKB 87 ("Prosser"), recently considered the issue of whether records...

While solicitor-client privilege dates to the 16th century, the law regarding privilege continues to evolve. In today's complex commercial litigation landscape...

In our Focus on Investigations series our Corporate Crime, Compliance and Investigations team looks at some of the key issues that investigators should take care to consider when undertaking internal investigations.

Municipal site plan applications have a public component that may expose an applicant to complaints from people who are opposed to their plans. As part of the application process...

Following are this week's summaries of the Court of Appeal for Ontario for the week of February 6, 2023.

Unifor, Canada's largest private sector union, conducted an independent investigation in response to its recent kickback scandal. In March 2022, Unifor's president, Jerry Dias, resigned after it was revealed...