Jones v. Abel

In spite of every safeguard the law has placed on privileged communications, although the law says a privilege is absolute and not subject to discovery, according to the majority, anybody can discover his legal adversary’s secret information simply by sending a discovery request. In fact, anybody can likely discover anybody’s secret information simply by filing a lawsuit on some grounds and then making a discovery demand under OCGA § 9-11-34. The person thus exposed dare not complain, or his lawyer or his psychiatrist, as the case may *897be, will bring all his secret information to court and use…