How has the BCSC treated records of medical malpractice in medical malpractices?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Miller v. Merck Frosst Canada Ltd., 2011 BCSC 1759 (CanLII):
However, tellingly, when the certification hearing later proceeded before Gropper J. as observed by Smith J. in Bartram v. Glaxosmithkline Inc., 2011 BCSC 1174, at para. 15 there was only a brief reference to such records:
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