A document prepared by a solicitor recording information obtained from a third party witness, for use in pending or contemplated litigation, is protected by legal professional privilege even where the third party who provided the information seeks production and even where the oral communication between the solicitor and the third party was not itself confidential. The determinative question is the purpose for which the document was brought into existence, not the confidentiality of the underlying information.
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