How has expert evidence been interpreted in police negligence cases?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Akintoye v White, 2017 BCSC 1094 (CanLII):
In police negligence cases where the courts have found expert evidence to be unnecessary based on the first exception, fact evidence regarding police regulation, policy, practice, training and other external indicators has been relied upon to determine the content of the standard of care (See for example: Kweon v. Roy (28 April 2016), Vancouver No. M124216 (B.C.S.C.).
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