With apologies for cross-posting.

Dear Colleagues,

I am writing to ask for your institution’s help in a research project that looks at solicitor-client privilege and its impact on the availability of archival sources for the study of the legal profession in Canada.

Your institution is invited to participate in a survey of the extent to which Canadian archival institutions acquire lawyers' papers. The questions look at your institution's policies and practices pertaining to the records of lawyers and law firms. (Canadian institutions only please! The understanding of solicitor-client privilege in Canada differs from that in other countries, so responses from elsewhere will skew the data).

The survey should be completed by the person responsible for your institution's acquisition and access policies, responding on behalf of your institution, not as an individual. If you are not that person, please forward this email to the appropriate person.

Click here<https://redcap.utoronto.ca/surveys/?s=NM47CDTH8FKE7DNH> for further information about the research and to continue to the survey itself.

Your repository's participation in this survey is important. The information you provide will help us better understand and address the impact of solicitor-client privilege on the sources for legal research preserved in Canadian archives.

Many thanks for your assistance.

Kind regards,

 Jean


Dr. Jean Dryden

Adjunct Professor

Faculty of Information

University of Toronto

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