In a personal opinion in an affidavit, is it permissible to include personal opinions in the affidavit?
Yukon, Canada
The following excerpt is from Ross River Dena Council v. The Attorney General of Canada, 2008 YKSC 45 (CanLII):
In Ulrich v. Ulrich, 2004 BCSC 95, Bouck J. commented, at para. 40, that deponents often include inadmissible personal opinions in affidavits. He cited Creber v. Franklin, [1993] B.C.J. No. 890 (S.C.), where Spencer J. stated that deponents should not add their descriptive opinions of the facts deposed to and that affidavits should not be “larded with adjectives.”
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