Is a court not obliged to relax standards or standards to accommodate the parties' lack of experience or familiarity with the rules of evidence and trial procedures?
Alberta, Canada
The following excerpt is from Fehr v HCL Contracting Ltd., 2019 ABPC 168 (CanLII):
A Court is “not obliged to relax . . . standards to accommodate the parties' lack of experience or familiarity with the rules of evidence and trial procedures”: McCallum v. Edmonton Frame and Suspension (2000) Ltd., 2016 ABQB 271 at para. 107.
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