What is the impact of the evidentiary use of clinical records in medical malpractice cases?

British Columbia, Canada


The following excerpt is from Suthakar v. Humble, 2016 BCSC 155 (CanLII):

In Edmondson v. Payer, 2011 BCSC 118, aff’d 2012 BCCA 114, N. Smith J. provided instructive commentary on the evidentiary use of clinical records including the relevance of their absence. At paragraph 37 he remarked:

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