
White Burgess SCC Case
The Supreme Court of Canada recently outlined in White Burgess Langille Inman v. Abbott and Haliburton Co., 2015 SCC 23 (“White Burgess”) that lack of independence of an expert report can go to the threshold question of admissibility. This case builds upon the principles in the landmark decision R v. Mohan, [1994] 2 S.C.R. 9 (“Mohan”), which serves as the starting point for assessing the admissibility of expert evidence. Mohan sets out four threshold requirements for the admi