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Obtaining US Discovery Is Not Imperiled When Pursuing Foreign Recovery | International ... - 0 views

  • In many foreign jurisdictions, discovery can be onerous from non-parties. For instance, in Canada, discovery will only be allowed if a) the moving party has been unable to obtain the information from other persons, b) it would be unfair to require the moving party to proceed to trial without the opportunity to obtain the discovery and c) the discovery will not entail unreasonable expenses or unfairness to the non-party.
  • Canadian courts have viewed the use of Section 1782 favorably in proceedings pending there.
  • In CC Chemicals Ltd. v. Sternson Ltd., (1980) 116 D.L.R. (3d) 239 (S.C.), the court permitted Section 1782 to fill a procedural gap since it did not otherwise interfere with the Canadian action.
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  • In Penty v. Law Society of British Columbia, (1999) 69 B.C.L.R. (3d) 159 (S.C.), the court concluded that a Canadian court will generally be reluctant to prevent a party from gathering evidence extraterritorially. Efforts to gather evidence in the US did not present a comity concern nor an overriding issue of unfairness.
Lars Bauer

[PDF] de Grandpré, Obtaining U.S. Discovery in Aid of Canadian Litigation, Co... - 0 views

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    Vincent M. de Grandpré, Obtaining U.S. Discovery in Aid of Canadian Litigation, Commercial Litigation Review, Vol. 7, No. 1, February 2009
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