Is there an attempt by defence counsel to “throw an atmosphere of mystery and difficulty” into the case?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Clower and Sexton v. Poeckert, 2007 BCSC 409 (CanLII):
He submits that the references by defence counsel to all the expert reports is an attempt to “throw an atmosphere of mystery and difficulty” into the case, referring to the comments of Esson J. in Sadowick v. Doobay where he quoted from an earlier reported case where it was said: “Of course all these questions are susceptible of being made intricate by one counsel or the other, or one party or the other may call a cloud of expert witnesses and throw an atmosphere of mystery and difficulty about a question.”
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