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Hypothetical question

  • 18-03-2010 1:05am
    #1
    Our man in Havana
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    Hypothetical situation:

    Lets say a person will shall call client A engages a solicitor for a task. During the course of the task the solicitor learns certain facts not in the public domain about client A. Business is concluded and they go their separate ways.

    Sometime later a second person lets call him client B engages the same solicitor to sue client A. Can the solicitor use what they have learned about client A to further client B's case? Can the solicitor tell client B any of this information.


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    GerardKeating
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    Bond-007 wrote: »
    Hypothetical situation:

    Lets say a person will shall call client A engages a solicitor for a task. During the course of the task the solicitor learns certain facts not in the public domain about client A. Business is concluded and they go their separate ways.

    Sometime later a second person lets call him client B engages the same solicitor to sue client A. Can the solicitor use what they have learned about client A to further client B's case? Can the solicitor tell client B any of this information.

    No, but once the solicitors learn the information by other (non privileged) means, they could use it.


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