What are the practical requirements for staging a trial in a different jurisdiction?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Friesen v. Norwegian Cruise Lines Inc., 2003 BCSC 256 (CanLII):
The upshot of this is that the practical requirements for the defendant of staging a trial are more or less the same no matter where in the world the trial might take place. It is for this reason that the decision of Mr. Justice Sigurdson in C.R.S. Forestal v. Boise Cascade Corporation[5], is distinguishable. There, the convenience factors were balanced among the three jurisdictions in question.
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