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High Court, arising from a discovery application in a defamation action against a statutory body, considers several individual documents for the purposes of determining whether legal professional privilege applied to them, and therefore whether they should be disclosed to the other party.
Defamation - statements in report issued by statutory authority - application for discovery - legal professional privilege - communications for the purposes of giving or receiving legal advice - confidentiality of communication - not having document used against party in proceedings - consideration of individual documents.
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