What is the effect of failing to call witnesses who may have important medical evidence?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Ranahan v Oceguera, 2019 BCSC 228 (CanLII):
This Court has drawn an adverse inference resulting from a failure to call witnesses who may have important medical evidence. Fisher J., as she then was, stated in Mohamud v. Yu, 2016 BCSC 1138, that:
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