What is the test for allowing a defendant to conduct an unauthorised amount of work while preparing for trial?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Scott v. Brown, 2014 BCSC 2427 (CanLII):
The court also adopted a test from Bogardus v. Hill (1913), 28 B.C.R. 358: …[A]ll work should be allowed for which a reasonable man, preparing for trial, would feel bound to undertake in order to prove his case.
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