What is the legal test for adducing fresh evidence in a civil case?

British Columbia, Canada


The following excerpt is from Wanson (Bristol) Development Ltd. v. Sahba, 2018 BCCA 260 (CanLII):

I propose to first address the application to adduce fresh evidence. The test for the admission of fresh evidence was stated in Palmer v. The Queen, 1979 CanLII 8 (SCC), [1980] 1 S.C.R. 759 at 775: (1) The evidence should generally not be admitted if, by due diligence, it could have been adduced at trial provided that this general principle will not be applied as strictly in a criminal case as in civil cases. (2) The evidence must be relevant in the sense that it bears upon a decisive or potentially decisive issue in the trial. (3) The evidence must be credible in the sense that it is reasonably capable of belief, and (4) It must be such that if believed it could reasonably, when taken with the other evidence adduced at trial, be expected to have affected the result. …

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