How has the court in BC considered third party privacy interests in deciding whether to grant disclosure to a plaintiff's personal computer drive?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Ruzic v. Insurance Corporation of British Columbia, 2010 BCSC 580 (CanLII):
The court weighed the probative value of disclosure against the significant invasion of third party privacy interests and considered the decisions of Dorgan J. in Park v. Mullin, 2005 BCSC 1813 [Park], and Myers J. in Desgagne v. Yuen et al., 2006 BCSC 955 [Desgagne]. In both cases, the plaintiff’s personal computer hard drive was a potential source of information. Both decisions recognized privacy rights of third parties and denied the disclosure sought.
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