What discretion does the BCSC have to allow an undisclosed witness to be added to the witness list?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from G.K.D. v C.S.D, 2021 BCSC 367 (CanLII):
The discretion to allow the addition of an undisclosed witness was addressed in Fu v. Zhu, 2017 BCSC 749, where Griffin J. (as she then was) said:
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