What is the test for receiving a nurse's notes?
Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
The following excerpt is from Marystown Shipyard Ltd v K/S A/S Offshore Atlantic, 1990 CanLII 6486 (NL CA):
The case of Ares v. Venner (supra) held that hospital records including nurses' notes made contemporaneously by someone having a personal knowledge of the matters being recorded and under duty to make the entry or record should be received in evidence as prima facie proof of the facts stated therein.
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