Is the evidence of a defence foreign expert irrelevant?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from U.S.A. v. Cheema et al, 2003 BCSC 1483 (CanLII):
The evidence of the defence foreign expert is therefore also irrelevant as it did not address the issue: See Italy v. Seifert, [2003] B.C.J. No. 1519 (Q.L.) (S.C.) at para. 69.
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