Patel v. Martin

**30 The primary issue on appeal is whether a party in a civil case has the right to an immediate appeal from a discovery order under the doctrine of present execution. The defendants here argue that, after the motion judge ordered the disclosure of communications that they contend are protected from disclosure by the attorney-client privilege, they will be irremediably harmed if they cannot immediately appeal from that order. We conclude that a party has no such right of interlocutory appeal.

*1085 In so holding, we note that a party nevertheless retains two other avenues to seek immediate…