What is the purpose of requiring an expert's report to state the reasons for their opinions?
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The following excerpt is from Cheesman et al v. Credit Valley Hospital et al., 2019 ONSC 5783 (CanLII):
The purpose of the 2010 amendments to require experts’ reports to state the reasons for their opinions was to ensure that experts clearly set out their opinions and the bases for them so that opposing counsel can easily understand the opinion and how it was arrived at: Hoang v. Vicentini, 2012 ONSC 1358 para. 11.
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