Can a defence expert be excluded from evidence at trial?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Walsh v. BDO Dunwoody LLP, 2013 BCSC 1463 (CanLII):
In Beazley v. Suzuki Motor Corporation, 2010 BCSC 480, the plaintiff objected to certain expert evidence on the basis that there was a reasonable apprehension of bias due to the defence expert’s previous employment with the defendant. Mr. Justice Goepel declined to exclude the report, and concluded that the admissibility of the report would be determined at trial on a voir dire:
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