Brown

We granted a rehearing in this ease for the following reason:

Petitioner served interrogatories on the doctor-defendant real party in interest pursuant to Code of Civil Procedure section 2030 and designated also Raymond A. Leonard, defendant's attorney, as one of the persons to answer said interrogatories. Defendant moved to quash. The grounds were that the interrogatories called for information protected (1) under the attorney-client privilege and (2) by the “work product” rule. Respondent court denied the motion as to some of the questions, granted it as to others. The prohibited questions demanded information regarding a certain meeting between defendant, defendant’s attorney, a committee of doctors and others at which matters relevant to plaintiff’s complaint were discussed.

The writ petitioned for here is an appropriate procedure to test the trial court’s rulings and we issued an order to show cause for the reason that the questions have novelty. (Oceanside Union School Dist. v. Superior Court, 58 Cal.2d 180 , 185 fn. 4 [ 23 Cal.Rptr. 375 , 373 P.2d 439 ].)

The petition alleges:

The petition has attached to it the memorandum of the trial court and the interrogatories in…