Does a cross-examine have to confront a witness in cross-examination?

British Columbia, Canada


The following excerpt is from Hamman v Insurance Corporation of British Columbia, 2018 BCSC 1120 (CanLII):

The jurisprudence reflects that where trial fairness is unaffected by lack of cross-examination, a cross-examiner’s failure to confront a witness will not violate the rule in Browne v. Dunn.

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