What is the test for admission of deposition evidence in a civil case?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Carter v. Canada (Attorney General), 2011 BCSC 1371 (CanLII):
I am not sure that the test for admission of deposition evidence should be different from that for the admission of any other evidence, at least where it is not a question of requesting the cooperation of courts in other jurisdictions (which was the case in the 1978 authority of Quinn v. Hurford, relied upon by the defendants). Further, this evidence is not tendered simply to corroborate that of the plaintiffs. I would not exclude the evidence as “merely corroborative”.
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