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Navy title card reading "Scott v Regional Health Authority B, Personnel files, privilege and patient privacy at discovery" from paulcahill.ca, labelled Case Comment.

Scott v Regional Health Authority B: What a Class Action Discloses at Discovery

In the certified Moncton oxytocin class action, a New Brunswick court has ordered the defendant nurse’s personnel file produced, rejected most of the hospital’s quality-improvement privilege claims, and refused to disclose the private health records of other patients. The disclosure reasoning is persuasive only in Ontario, but it tracks the Ontario approach closely.

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