Does a defendant have to match expert for expert and report for report?

British Columbia, Canada


The following excerpt is from Walch v. Zamko, 2008 BCSC 433 (CanLII):

Reasonable equality does not mean that the defendant must be able to match expert for expert and report for report: McKay v. Passmore, [2005] B.C.J. No. 1232, 2005 BCSC 570.

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