Pleading Ignorance Has a Price: How a Commercial Tenant's Defence Triggered Deemed Waiver of Solicitor-Client Privilege

Damiana Pavone of McCarthy Tétrault discusses an Ontario Court of Appeal ruling that a commercial tenant waived solicitor-client privilege by grounding its defence in its alleged misunderstanding of a 20-year lease extension, confirming that litigants cannot put their legal understanding in issue while shielding the advice they received.

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