What are the elements of a summary trial?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Lewis v. Lehigh Northwest Cement Limited, 2009 BCCA 424 (CanLII):
He appears to have seen the issues as discrete, occupying distinct portions of time in the two-day summary trial and involving discrete questions of law or fact upon which it could be said one or the other of the parties was successful, quoting from Poirier v. Wal-Mart Canada Corp., 2007 BCSC 66, 69 B.C.L.R. (4th) 106 at para. 46. He identified the importance of each issue, identified which party had been successful and said:
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