Does the appointment of an assessor to conduct a psychiatric examination constitute a substantial intervention into the privacy and security of the individual?
Ontario, Canada
The following excerpt is from Stoor v. Stoor Estate, 2014 ONSC 5684 (CanLII):
This court has acknowledged that the appointment of an assessor to conduct a psychiatric examination “is a substantial intervention into the privacy and security of the individual”: see Abrams v. Abrams, [2008] O.J. No. 5207 (S.C.), at para. 50.
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