Solicitor-Client Privilege

Policies and Practices of Canadian Archives

Auteurs-es

  • Jean Dryden

Résumé

La présente étude exploratoire s’est donnée pour objectif de tester l’hypothèse selon laquelle les documents des avocat.e.s soumis au privilège avocat.eclient.e sont disponibles pour la recherche dans les archives canadiennes sans préjudice apparent pour les personnes concernées, malgré le principe juridique selon lequel le privilège avocat.e-client.e ne prend jamais fin. En utilisant les données de la base de données nationale des descriptions archivistiques ainsi qu’un sondage en ligne, cet article présente la prise en compte du privilège avocat.e-client.e par les archivistes ainsi que les pratiques archivistiques canadiennes en matière d’acquisition documents d’avocat.e.s et de leur accès. Même si l’étude est sujette à plusieurs limitations, les conclusions initiales confirment l’hypothèse et offrent des avenues pour de futures recherches.

Biographie de l'auteur-e

Jean Dryden

Jean Dryden is an archival consultant, independent scholar, and adjunct professor in the Faculty of Information at the University of Toronto. She has many years of experience as a staff archivist and archival administrator at the National Archives of Canada, the Provincial Archives of Alberta, and as Chief Archivist of the United Church of Canada/Victoria University Archives. Her research interests focus on barriers to access to archival records, particularly those posed by copyright. Her interest in solicitor-client privilege arose while she was organizing the records of an organization involved in a series of landmark legal cases. The risk that the records would be stripped of privileged materials led to an investigation of the rationale for perpetual privilege and exploratory research into the practices of Canadian archivists vis-à-vis the acquisition of, and access to, lawyers’ papers.

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2026-06-18

Comment citer

Dryden, Jean. 2026. « Solicitor-Client Privilege: Policies and Practices of Canadian Archives ». Archivaria 101 (juin):120-54. https://archivaria.ca/index.php/archivaria/article/view/14091.

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Archivaria 101 (Spring 2026)

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