What is the effect of having the same solicitor at the same time as the opposing solicitor?
Alberta, Canada
The following excerpt is from Potato Growers of Alberta v. Canadian Food Inspection Agency, 2005 ABQB 530 (CanLII):
The latter point was in doubt at one time owing to the following comment made by Mr. Justice Rinfret in Rogers v. Davis, 1932 CanLII 10 (SCC), [1932] S.C.R. 546 at 547: I know of no law or rule - and none was cited to me - which compels persons to appear by the same solicitor because their interest, as regards their opposition to the claim of the plaintiff, may be identical.
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