In what circumstances will a witness be required to fully disclose his or her personal information to a witness?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Ducharme v. England, 1999 CanLII 1107 (BC SC):
In Rajput v. Menu Foods Ltd., 5 C.C.E.L., 22, (Ont. H.C.J.) Galligan J., at 25 says: If a business can have any chance of viability, there must exist between its president and his right-hand man, a relationship of complete trust and utter frankness. Neither must expect that he is required to cross-examine the other with precision in order to get full disclosure of information which that other has. It seems to me that the mere indication by one of them of an interest in a subject calls upon the other to fully disclose all the information that the other has on that subject. . . . A relationship of trust cannot exist, if one party to the relationship hides information that the other one is seeking.
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