What is the standard of duty of a lawyer who is not a lawyer in the field of documentation?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Trout v. MacEwen, 2011 BCPC 266 (CanLII):
As was stated by our Court of Appeal in Roberge v. Huberman at paragraph 56: There may be cases in which the issue as to standard of duty turns so much on the question of "appropriate documentation" that only lawyers practising in the particular field can throw light on the question. Evidence of that kind is undoubtedly useful in some cases, most commonly where the issues involve abstruse questions of conveyancing practice.
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