Discovery Practice in British Columbia--ONLINE

Discovery: Your key to reaching settlement or gaining an edge at trial

This publication is essential for: all lawyers using the BC Supreme Court discovery procedures in a case

Current to: January 15, 2026

The tools of discovery are powerful with the potential to strengthen your case and weaken the other party's. With Discovery Practice in British Columbia, you have access to analysis of the latest case law and practice tips for all discovery tools including document discovery, examination for discovery, pre-trial examination of a witness, interrogatories, and more. Scripts on making and defending objections, checklists, and hundreds of sample forms help you to use discovery procedures to effectively build your case.

With an online subscription to Discovery Practice in British Columbia, your firm will be able to:

• conveniently access detailed guidance at any time and from any location, search for relevant information, link directly to significant legislation, case law, and websites, and download precedents
• determine strategic approaches for obtaining and giving document production
  
• ask the right questions and make effective objections at examinations for discovery
  
• assert and attack privilege claims
  
• skillfully use discovery evidence at trial

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Highlights of this update include the following:

• case law and legislation references brought current to approximately January 15, 2026
• discussion of case law regarding the following:
  • it is a low bar to release a party from an implied undertaking so that evidence given during discovery in one proceeding may be used in a related proceeding (Norseyl Properties Ltd. v. Mirage Trading Corp., 2024 BCSC 1990)
  • in a class action proceeding related to alleged harassment of the class of flight attendants employed by the defendant, the Court ordered production of all documents related to harassment complaints involving flight attendants whether they had opted into the class or not, but not for all employees of the defendant (Lewis v. WestJet Airlines Ltd., 2024 BCSC 2398 (Chambers))
  • applications may be dismissed where demands for document production are made without reference to or grounded in the specific requirements of Supreme Court Civil Rule 7-1 (Hill v. Dhanda, 2024 BCSC 2145 (Associate Judge) and Singh v. Gupta, 2025 BCSC 1244 (Associate Judge))

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CLEBC Legal Editor
Allison Cartier
acartier@cle.bc.ca

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