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Criminal law 2025 ONCA 880

R. v. Williams

The Ontario Court of Appeal dismissed Clyde Williams’s appeal from convictions, holding there was no reversible error in admitting or relying on surreptitious recordings.

  • Admissibility of surreptitious recordings
  • Canada evidence act ss.31.1 and 31.2
  • Prejudicial vs probative
  • Credibility assessment
  • Appellate deference
  • Criminal-law
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Wills and estates 2025 BCSC 2265

Morberg Estate (Re)

The court dismissed an application to compel DNA testing in an intestate estate dispute, finding the evidence was uncorroborated and not compelling enough to justify the privacy intrusion.

  • Intestate succession
  • Dna testing for parentage
  • Admissibility of surreptitious recordings
  • Hearsay evidence
  • Definition of "child" under succession legislation
  • Intestate-succession
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Family law 2025 BCSC 647

A.B. v. C.D.

La Cour suprême de la Colombie-Britannique a admis un enregistrement clandestin d’une séance de counseling conjugal, laissant la question du poids et de l’usage pour la suite du procès.

  • Admissibility of surreptitious recordings
  • Divorce act s.10(5)
  • Wigmore privilege
  • Marriage counselling confidentiality
  • Use of recordings in cross-examination
  • Surreptitious-recordings
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Family law 2023 BCSC 570

Karringten v. Morrisonn

The court appointed a litigation guardian for Jonn Morrisonn, allowed discovery, admitted surreptitious recordings, and ordered further document production.

  • Appointment of litigation guardian
  • Medical/independent medical examination (ime)
  • Testimonial competence and leave to examine
  • Admissibility of surreptitious recordings
  • Document production and third‑party production
  • Video recording and limits on examination duration
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Civil procedure 2020 BCSC 575

Cook v. Kang

The court barred the plaintiff from using surreptitious audio recordings of two IMEs, finding late disclosure under Rule 7-1 and inadmissibility under Rule 7-6.

  • Independent medical examination (ime) process
  • Discovery and disclosure (rule 7-1)
  • Admissibility of surreptitious recordings
  • Court discretion under rule 7-1(21)
  • Rule 7-6 ime conditions
  • Discovery-and-disclosure
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Family law 2018 BCSC 1999

Nadim v. Hakim

The court dismissed a family-law claim for spousal support and enforcement of a religious marriage contract, and excluded a surreptitious recording as unreliable.

  • Spousal support
  • Religious marriage contract (mahr) enforcement
  • Admissibility of surreptitious recordings
  • Income attribution
  • Asset division
  • Spousal-support
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Family law 2017 NSFC 34

D.P v. G.G.M.

The court admitted the challenged transcripts as an exceptional circumstance where probative value outweighed policy concerns; maintained joint custody with mother as primary day‑to‑day caregiver; ordered specified unsupervised parenting time for the father (every second weekend and additional provisions), prohibited any contact between T.M. and the children pending her completion of counselling/education, ordered the father to undergo parenting counselling/education, set child support at $1,571/month and scheduled a review of parenting/contact in four months.

  • Best interests of the child
  • Parenting time
  • Supervision of access
  • Third party contact restrictions
  • Admissibility of hearsay
  • Admissibility of surreptitious recordings
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Family law 2017 BCSC 1766

Xie v. Yuan

The court refused to admit a late-disclosed recording, transcript and translation, finding prejudice to the claimant, no reasonable excuse, and low probative value.

  • Late disclosure of evidence
  • Admissibility of surreptitious recordings
  • Probative vs prejudicial balancing
  • Credibility and impeachment
  • Interpretation of translated evidence
  • Late-disclosure
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Tort 2014 BCSC 1193

Dhillon v. Chhina

The court found the plaintiff was driving the Malibu and was 100% liable for the collision. The claims against the defendants were dismissed.

  • Liability
  • Credibility assessment
  • Admissibility of surreptitious recordings
  • Burden and standard of proof
  • Costs
  • Motor-vehicle-accident-liability
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Family law 2014 BCSC 653

Finch v. Finch

Family law trial on parenting time, support, and family debt. The court admitted a late cell-phone recording, ordered equal parenting time, and set child and spousal support.

  • Best interests of the child
  • Admissibility of surreptitious recordings
  • Income imputation
  • Spousal support advisory guidelines
  • Child support guidelines set-off
  • Division of family debt
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