Schneider v Leigh

Subject Matter

PRACTICE — Practice and procedure — Discovery — Privilege — Limited to litigant — Medical report obtained by defendants for purpose of litigation — Paragraphs of report sent by defendants' solicitors in letter to plaintiff's solicitors, and shown by them to plaintiff — Action for libel commenced by plaintiff against doctor — Defence of privilege by doctor — Whether legal professional privilege possessed by defendants in first action extends to the defendant in a second action.

[1955] 2 QB 195; [1955] 2 WLR 904; [1955] 2 All ER 173, CA