If a trustee cannot provide an accounting, can the parties rely on expert evidence to reconstruct what happened?

British Columbia, Canada


The following excerpt is from Taylor v Banicevic, 2017 BCSC 1538 (CanLII):

If a trustee is unable to provide an accounting, the parties may rely upon expert evidence to try to reconstruct what happened: Pirani v. Esmail, 2014 ONCA 145.

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