Is a defendant’s clinical notes made contemporaneously sufficient to be considered in evidence?
Ontario, Canada
The following excerpt is from Dickie v. Minett, 2012 ONSC 4474 (CanLII):
Ares v. Venner, 1970 CanLII 5 (SCC), [1970] S.C.J. No. 26 sets out that records, such as the defendant’s clinical notes made contemporaneously, should be received in evidence as prima facie of the facts stated therein.
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