Can adverse inferences be applied in a trial?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Jones v Rossner, 2020 BCSC 2056 (CanLII):
In Tayner v. Brard, 2016 BCSC 1738, Justice Armstrong at para. 128 discussed the question of adverse inferences as addressed in The Law of Evidence in Canada. He observed:
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