Loss of client legal privilege: joint clients
(1) This section only applies to a civil proceeding in connection with which 2 or more parties have, before the commencement of the proceeding, jointly retained a lawyer in relation to the same matter. (2) This Division does not prevent one of those parties from adducing evidence of— (a) a communication made by any one of them to the lawyer, or (b) the contents of a confidential document prepared by or at the direction or request of any one of them, in connection with that matter.
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