What is the value of a psychiatrist's opinion?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from R. v. Boyd, 1983 CanLII 240 (BC CA):
That was also the view expressed in Wilband v. The Queen, supra, where Fauteux J. said at p. 11 C.C.C, p. 297 W.W.R.: The value of a psychiatrist's opinion may be affected to the extent to which it may rest on second-hand source material; but that goes to weight and not to the receivability in evidence of the opinion, which opinion is no evidence of the truth of the information but evidence of the opinion formed on the basis of that information.
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