Discovery Practice in British Columbia--ONLINE

Discovery: Your key to reaching settlement or gaining an edge at trial

This publication is essential for: all lawyers using the BC Supreme Court discovery procedures in a case

Current to: January 15, 2025

The tools of discovery are powerful with the potential to strengthen your case and weaken the other party's. With Discovery Practice in British Columbia, you have access to analysis of the latest case law and practice tips for all discovery tools including document discovery, examination for discovery, pre-trial examination of a witness, interrogatories, and more. Scripts on making and defending objections, checklists, and hundreds of sample forms help you to use discovery procedures to effectively build your case.

With an online subscription to Discovery Practice in British Columbia, your firm will be able to:

• conveniently access detailed guidance at any time and from any location, search for relevant information, link directly to significant legislation, case law, and websites, and download precedents
• determine strategic approaches for obtaining and giving document production
  
• ask the right questions and make effective objections at examinations for discovery
  
• assert and attack privilege claims
  
• skillfully use discovery evidence at trial

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Highlights of this update include the following:

• case law and legislative references brought current to approximately January 15, 2025
• discussion of case law regarding the following:
  • the party seeking production of documents over which privilege is claimed bears the burden of establishing that the privilege was waived, while the disclosing party bears the burden of establishing that the disclosure was inadvertent (Conseil scolaire francophone de la Colombie-Britannique v. British Columbia, 2024 BCSC 987)
  • the Court ordered the plaintiff to provide further and better answers to interrogatories where the plaintiff's initial response to interrogatories were so general and vague it suggested a lack of effort, care, and detail by the plaintiff to meaningfully respond to specific questions (Yen v. Ghahramani, 2024 BCSC 1407)

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CLEBC Legal Editor
Allison Cartier
acartier@cle.bc.ca

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