What are the implications of a summary judgment or summary trial?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Currie v. Sonnenberg, 2017 BCSC 526 (CanLII):
Summary judgments and summary trials are important tools in making justice accessible. In the context of the current legal system in Canada justice demands that courts make every reasonable effort to resolve cases summarily: Hryniak v. Mauldin, 2014 SCC 7.
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