What is the test for dispelling an expert’s charges?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Chandi v. Atwell, 2011 BCSC 1498 (CanLII):
[28] Nonetheless, an expert’s charges will be significantly discounted if not disallowed in their entirety if their evidence is “nothing more than counsel could have done in argument”: Moore v. Dhillon, [1992] B.C.J. No. 3055.
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