Is a lawyer's personal and professional life available to the jury in a personal injury case?

British Columbia, Canada


The following excerpt is from Plensky v. Di Biase, 2010 BCSC 821 (CanLII):

In Gemmell v. Reddicopp, 2005 BCCA 628, 48 B.C.L.R. (4th) 349, the court noted at para. 37 that the address in that case: . . . invited the jury to identify and sympathize with the plaintiff. It put [counsel's] personal and professional life before the jury and invited the jury to identify with his cause.

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