Office of the Saskatchewan Information and Privacy Commissioner. Guide to FOIP, Chapter 4, Exemptions from the Right of Access. Updated 24 July 2025. 263 • Common interest privilege: a privilege that exists when records are provided among parties where several parties have a common interest in anticipated litigation.887 • Informer privilege: historically known as ‘police informer privilege,’888 means the qualified privilege that a government can invoke to prevent disclosure of the identity and communications of its informants.889 • Labour relations privilege: is a privilege in the labour relations context. Four conditions should be satisfied in order for the privilege to be claimed for communications made within a confidential relationship: 1. The communications must originate in a confidence that they will not be disclosed. 2. This element of confidentiality must be essential to the full and satisfactory maintenance of the relations between the parties. 3. The relation must be one which in the opinion of the community ought to be sedulously fostered. 4. The injury that would inure to the relation by the disclosure of the communications must be greater than the benefit thereby gained for the correct disposal of the litigation.890 • Settlement privilege: a privilege that applies to the discussions leading up to a resolution of a dispute in the face of litigation. It promotes the settlement of lawsuits.891 The existence of the privilege is determined by a three-part test: 1. The existence or contemplation of a litigious dispute; 2. Communications that are made with the intention they remain confidential if negotiations failed; and 3. The purpose of the communications was to achieve a settlement.892 887 Service Alberta, FOIP Guidelines and Practices: 2009 Edition, Chapter 4 at p. 199. 888 AB IPC Order 96-020 at [67]. 889 Garner, Bryan A., 2019. Black’s Law Dictionary, 11th Edition. St. Paul, Minn.: West Group at p. 1451. 890 CB, HK & RD v Canadian Union of Public Employees, Local No. 21, 2017 CanLII 68786 (SK LRB) at [40] to [42]. 891 Service Alberta, FOIP Guidelines and Practices: 2009 Edition, Chapter 4 at p. 201. 892 CB, HK & RD v Canadian Union of Public Employees, Local No. 21, 2017 CanLII 68786 (SK LRB) at [35].
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