As courts across Canada continue to see a rising trend in self-represented litigants, it becomes increasingly important for them to understand court rules and procedures to ensure access to justice.
In the recent case of Blomer v Workers Compensation Board, the Alberta Court of Appeal considered whether the motions judge could correct the procedural missteps of the ...
Authors: Kinji Bourchier and Amy Nathanson.
In the recent Ontario Superior Court case of Moore v. Getahun, 2014 ONSC 237 (“Moore”) the Court answered yes to this question and took a very restrictive approach to communications between counsel and experts. Almost all civil litigators across the spectrum of cases deal with experts. Experts can play a ...
The court process in Canada’s two western most provinces have much in common. Prominently, new Rules of Civil Procedure has come into effect in both British Columbia and Alberta in the last 8 months. Rules of Civil Procedure, often called Rules of Court, establish the procedures by which lawsuits are commenced and proceed in the superior courts of each province.
In British ...
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