Where an expert has retained separate legal counsel to assist with the preparation of a report or affidavit, the expert will not be required to produce drafts or copies of communications between the expert and his or her counsel. However, the expert will be required to produce drafts and correspondence if there is a factual basis for the reasonable suspicion that counsel has improperly influenced the expert.

After an action has been set down for trial, leave to conduct a further examination for discovery will be granted when there has been a “substantial or unexpected change in circumstances.” The plaintiff’s deterioration in health and subsequent surgery, if reasonable extensions of injuries present prior to setting the action down, will not satisfy this test.

On reconsideration, the executive chair found that attendant care benefits were payable on an ongoing basis 

This refusals motion concerned a plaintiff’s request for the statutory third party’s file contents, including the defendant’s first statement to his liability insurer and all correspondence between the defendant and his liability insurer. TD, the statutory third party (when the motion was heard), refused production on the basis of litigation privilege. The plaintiff’s motion was defeated.

Plaintiff’s attempt to pre-screen jurors for “connection” to insurers refused.

Recent decision about the right to commence actions and arbitrations post-April 1, 2016