When will a party agree to their own business records?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Hamilton v The Owners, Strata Plan VIS3782, 2018 BCSC 1585 (CanLII):
When documents are produced by a party, that party will frequently agree to their admissibility as business records. But in the absence of such an agreement or admission, the party seeking to rely on them must call a witness to prove that the preconditions for admissibility are satisfied. The records are not made admissible merely by placing them before the court: Sandhu v. Gill (1999), 93 A.C.W.S. (3d) 670 (B.C.S.C.). No agreement has been made in this case and the necessary evidence has not been called.
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