What is the effect of having to be found to be inadmissible evidence in a civil case?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Stewart v. Knoll North America Corp., 2007 BCCA 11 (CanLII):
The trial judge ruled the evidence inadmissible. After referring to Vorvis v. I.C.B.C., 1989 CanLII 93 (SCC), [1989] 1 S.C.R. 1085, 58 D.L.R. (4th) 193, she said this:
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