Legal Dictionary of Pakistan

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offensive-use waiver

An exemption from the attorney-client privilege, whereby a litigant is considered to have waived the privilege by seeking affirmative relief, if the claim relies on privileged information that would be outcomedeterminative and that the opposing party has no other way to obtain. Cf. AT-ISSUE WAIVER.