What is the threshold for a court-ordered mental health assessment?
Ontario, Canada
The following excerpt is from Parniak v. Carter, 2002 CanLII 45671 (ON CJ):
[11] The common thread in the line of cases following Linton v. Clarke seems to be a pre-requisite of some clinical issue that an expert can investigate and upon which the expert can report to assist the court in making its decision. Is this to be the threshold criterion for court-ordered assessments?
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