Can hearsay be admissible in a personal injury action?
Nova Scotia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Black v. Silver Estate, 2022 NSSC 82 (CanLII):
The Estate submitted that in an action, rather than upon an interlocutory motion, that hearsay can be admissible if offered only for a fact of a statement having been made, with reliance on Gibson v. Party Unknown 2014 NSSC 220.
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