In what circumstances will the court admit a report of an Indian government inquiry into torture as evidence under the public document exception?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Grewal v. Khalsa Credit Union, 2011 BCSC 277 (CanLII):
In India v. Singh, [1996] B.C.J. No. 2792 (S.C.), the court appears to have admitted a report of an Indian government inquiry into torture allegations into evidence under the public document exception. It did so without any analysis of the rule and in my respectful view it was clearly wrongly decided. In those circumstances I need not follow it: McCready v. Nanaimo (City), 2005 BCSC 762 at paras. 46-47, 46 B.C.L.R. (4th) 331.
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