Does the Court of Appeal have any authority to draw an adverse inference?

British Columbia, Canada


The following excerpt is from Singh v Chand, 2019 BCSC 932 (CanLII):

In Thomasson v. Moeller, 2016 BCCA 14, the court of appeal stated the following concerning the discretion of the court to draw an adverse inference:

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