Does a party have standing to object to an examination?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Brooks v. Abbey Adelaide Holdings Inc., 2014 BCSC 2075 (CanLII):
Neither Yemen case really dealt with the issue of standing. In Black v. Gust, 2000 BCSC 991, Hunter J. dealt with standing and found that, since there is a common law rule that there is no property in a witness, the other party of record had no standing to object to the examination. He found the other parties did not have standing. They had right to notice of the hearing so that they would know what was being said and how it impacted them, but they had no standing to object to the examination.
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