Can a judge take judicial notice of the conversion rate of the respondent’s salary conversion rate at trial?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from G.W.M. v. W.C.M., 2015 BCSC 1624 (CanLII):
The respondent’s salary must be converted to Canadian funds. In Ball v. Ball, 2012 BCSC 227, at para. 44, Ehrcke J. said that judges may take judicial notice of the conversion rate at the time of trial. Counsel provided me with the exchange rates current during argument and for the period retroactive to the commencement of this action. Those rates were marked as exhibits and form part of the evidence.
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