What is the effect of the actions of the parties in a personal injury case?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Yousefian v Jafarmadar, 2018 BCSC 855 (CanLII):
As a result of the actions of both parties, I have been limited in my ability to make findings, and in this regard, I adopt the words of Madam Justice Southin in Le v. Milburn, [1987] B.C.J. No. 2690 (S.C.) at para. 2: When a litigant practises to deceive, whether by deliberate falsehood or gross exaggeration, the court has much difficulty in disentangling the truth from the web of deceit and exaggeration. If, in the course of the disentangling of the web, the court casts aside as untrue something that was indeed true, the litigant has only himself or herself to blame.
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