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Failing to Tender Your Expert\u2019s Qualifications Could Prove Fatal.\u00a0 <\/strong>In this case, a Vendor of a failed real estate sale sued the Defaulting Purchaser for the difference in their agreed selling price, and the lower eventual sale price.\u00a0 The Defaulting Purchaser took the position that the eventual sale price was undervalued, and tendered Affidavit evidence from \u201cexperts\u201d who explained why the eventual sale price was inordinately low, and wholly under market value.\u00a0 The Defaulting Purchaser wanted to argue that had the home been resold at the correct market rate, nothing was owed to the Vendor.\u00a0\u00a0 The court did not accept the evidence of the \u201cexperts\u201d because their qualifications were not provided, and when the experts were questioned about their qualifications, the self-represented Defaulting Purchaser refused to let the experts answer those questions.\u00a0 In the result, the motions judge gave very little weight to the experts\u2019 testimony, and concluded that the eventual resale purchase price was the correct value for the house on resale, and awarded damages for the difference in this lower resale price and the sale price negotiated with the Defaulting Purchaser.\u00a0 The Court of Appeal upheld the treatment of the experts\u2019 evidence, citing that absence of any qualifications, it was appropriately open to the judge to conclude that their testimony was of \u201cno probative force,\u201d and to draw a negative inference from the Defendant\u2019s refusal to allow the experts to answer questions about their qualifications.\u00a0 As stated by the court:<\/p>\n

“As a matter of common sense, it is plain and obvious that the \u201cexpert\u2019s\u201d experience and training would be relevant to the weight to be assigned to the opinion. The appellant refused to allow the witness to answer questions that were obviously relevant to the weight to be attached to the opinion offered by that witness. The most obvious explanation for the refusal to answer the question is that the answer would not help the appellant\u2019s claim the property was sold under value. The logic of the adverse inference drawn from the appellant\u2019s refusal to allow the witness to answer those questions was not dependent on whether the appellant was legally trained.”<\/p>\n

Scott v. Forjani<\/em><\/strong>, 2022 ONCA 30<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.canlii.org\/en\/on\/onca\/doc\/2022\/2022onca30\/2022onca30.html<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Failing to Tender Your Expert\u2019s Qualifications Could Prove Fatal.\u00a0 In this case, a Vendor of a failed real estate sale sued the Defaulting Purchaser for the difference in their agreed selling price, and the lower eventual sale price.\u00a0 The Defaulting Purchaser took the position that the eventual sale price was undervalued, and tendered Affidavit evidence… Continue reading Failing to Tender Your Expert\u2019s Qualifications Could Prove Fatal<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[53],"tags":[132],"class_list":["post-7856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-court-practice","tag-experts-qualifications","entry"],"yoast_head":"\nFailing to Tender Your Expert\u2019s Qualifications Could Prove Fatal - 360Mediations<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Appeal court confirms that judge was correct in giving very little, if any, weight to expert\u2019s opinion when their level of experience and training was withheld from the court.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/mail.360mediations.com\/en\/failing-to-tender-your-experts-qualifications-could-prove-fatal\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Failing to Tender Your Expert\u2019s Qualifications Could Prove Fatal - 360Mediations\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Appeal court confirms that judge was correct in giving very little, if any, weight to expert\u2019s opinion when their level of experience and training was withheld from the court.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/mail.360mediations.com\/en\/failing-to-tender-your-experts-qualifications-could-prove-fatal\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"360Mediations\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/360Mediations-120028596572318\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:author\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/360Mediations-120028596572318\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-01-21T22:28:12+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-01-21T22:28:19+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.360mediations.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/COURT-DECISIONS-360MEDIATIONS-1x1-1.png?fit=406%2C322&ssl=1\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"406\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"322\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"David M. 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