Is a party entitled to full documentary disclosure in a civil case?

Ontario, Canada


The following excerpt is from Holbrook v. FX Displays Packaging Logistics Inc., 2017 ONSC 4757 (CanLII):

The general rule is that a party has a prima facie right to one trial and full documentary disclosure (Bilich v. Buck, [2008] O.J. No. 2706 at para. 14).

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