What is the disclosure required of the Crown in a civil case?
Ontario, Canada
The following excerpt is from Underwood v. Underwood, 1994 CanLII 7576 (ON SC):
Our law has perhaps not yet extended to that point, or in civil cases to the extent of disclosure required of the Crown in criminal cases, but clearly our rules embody the principle that “[m]utual knowledge of all the relevant facts gathered by both parties is essential to proper litigation,” Hickman v. Taylor, 329 U.S. 495 (Ohio 1947) [at p. 507].
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