Is a statement of law in the opening of a trial?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Cole v Lau, 2017 BCSC 2609 (CanLII):
From that it is argued that any statement of law in an opening ought to be avoided. I would not go that far. I do not disagree with what is said by Justice Groves in Aberdeen v. The Township of Langley. I specifically agree that it is not always possible to avoid discussing the law, and, in fact, in many cases it is probably required in order to give the jury a sense of the evidence that they are about to hear and the issues that they are going to have to grapple with. And this is case of that nature.
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