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Civil procedure 2025 BCSC 1439

Chaudhary v. Mehlenbacher

The court adjourned a plaintiff’s DEER and expert-evidence application, finding the record lacked enough admissible evidence, while admitting the father’s affidavit in part.

  • Expert evidence limits
  • Disbursements cap
  • Statutory evidentiary requirements
  • Privilege vs disclosure timing
  • Admissibility of hearsay on interlocutory applications
  • Causation in childhood injury cases
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Civil procedure 2025 BCSC 506

Tench v. Sullivan

The court dismissed a DEER application to exclude disbursements from the 6% cap, finding the plaintiff had not shown undue hardship despite proving timing, risk, and necessity.

  • Disbursements cap
  • Deer s.5 applications
  • Undue hardship
  • Proportionality
  • Expert evidence limits
  • Costs allocation
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Constitutional law 2024 BCSC 889

Shrieves v. British Columbia (Attorney General)

The court refused to suspend s. 5 of DEER pending a Charter challenge, finding no fair s. 7 issue, only a limited s. 15 issue, and no irreparable harm.

  • Charter s.7
  • Charter s.15
  • Regulatory validity
  • Disbursements cap
  • Interlocutory injunction
  • Litigation privilege
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Civil procedure 2024 BCSC 499

Fedor v. Fedirchuk

The court allowed a vehicle-injury plaintiff to exclude physiatry and psychiatry disbursements, accepted counsel affidavits, and denied exclusion of application-related costs.

  • Disbursements cap
  • Expert evidence
  • Admissibility of counsel affidavits
  • Hardship
  • Causation
  • Costs of application
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Civil procedure 2024 BCSC 384

Ali v. Mercedes-Benz Financial Services Canada Corporation

Court granted in part an application to exclude vehicle-injury disbursements from the 6% cap, allowing expert and trial binder costs but refusing economist and some other costs.

  • Disbursements cap
  • Expert evidence
  • Undue hardship
  • Section 5 disbursement and expert evidence regulation
  • Section 12.1 evidence act (additional experts)
  • Disbursements-cap
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Civil procedure 2024 BCSC 278

Kwiatkowski v. Russo

Application under the Disbursements and Expert Evidence Regulation partly granted: mediation and application disbursements were excluded, but FCE and economist reports were not.

  • Disbursements cap
  • Expert evidence
  • Functional capacity evaluation
  • Future care
  • Economist report
  • Mediation costs
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Civil procedure 2024 BCSC 108

Garcia v. Gill

The court dismissed a pre-trial application to exclude expert disbursements under s. 5(6) of the Regulation because the plaintiff lacked evidence of anticipated costs and the 6% cap risk.

  • Disbursements cap
  • Expert evidence
  • Judicial notice
  • Pre-trial applications
  • Expert-evidence
  • Disbursements
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Civil procedure 2024 BCSC 208

Tran v. Ozee

The court partially granted a pre-trial application to exclude expert disbursements from the vehicle-injury cap, allowing psychiatry and related application costs, but not an occupational therapy FCE.

  • Disbursements cap
  • Expert reports
  • Necessity and proportionality
  • Psychiatric evidence
  • Occupational therapy / fce
  • Statutory interpretation
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Civil procedure 2024 BCSC 57

Kundan v. Hoogstra

The court denied a plaintiff’s request to exclude a psychiatric assessment from the disbursements cap, but allowed any rebuttal physiatry report to be excluded.

  • Disbursements cap
  • Expert reports
  • Psychiatric assessment
  • Proportionality test under s.5(8)
  • Rebuttal reports
  • Disbursements-cap
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Civil procedure 2023 BCSC 2297

Nagra v. Prasad

The plaintiff sought pre-approval to exclude expert-report disbursements from the 6% cap. The court granted the application, including anticipated rebuttal reports.

  • Disbursements cap
  • Expert evidence
  • Costs
  • Application for exclusion of disbursements
  • Expert-evidence
  • Disbursements
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