What is the test for conducting examinations for discovery?
Ontario, Canada
The following excerpt is from Nicolardi v. Canadian Tire Corporation, 2018 ONSC 2861 (CanLII):
As stated in Ciardullo v. Premetalco, [2009] O.J. No. 3625 (S.C.J.) at paragraph 19, the starting point for analysis is to note the purposes of examinations for discovery. The purposes of examinations for discovery are to enable the examining party to know the case it must meet, to assess the strengths and weaknesses of the opposing party’s case and its own case, and to obtain admissions at trial.
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