Does expert evidence need to make a connection between bad parenting and bad parenting?
Nova Scotia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Nova Scotia (Community Services) v R.H., 2018 NSSC 104 (CanLII):
Expert evidence is not always needed to make the connection between bad parenting and the risk of emotional harm. “There may be cases where expert evidence is helpful, but the words of s. 22(1), 22(2)(f) and (g) of the Act are plain words that are capable of being applied to situations such as this by the judges to whom that task is entrusted.”: JGB v. Nova Scotia (Community Services), 2002 NSCA 86 at paragraph 10.
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