Can a plaintiff appeal from an order requiring him to hand over a computer hard drive to a forensic expert?
Nova Scotia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Ng’ang’a v Mburu, 2018 NSSC 26 (CanLII):
In Laushway v. Messervey 2014 NSCA 7, the plaintiff appealed from an order directing him to turn over his computer to the defendants for the purpose of a forensic analysis of its hard drive on the basis it was thought to contain information necessary for a fair trial.
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