{"id":8463,"date":"2022-04-29T23:09:47","date_gmt":"2022-04-30T03:09:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/360mediations.com\/en\/?p=8463"},"modified":"2022-04-29T23:09:51","modified_gmt":"2022-04-30T03:09:51","slug":"first-decision-to-interpret-the-new-rules-on-late-delivery-of-expert-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.360mediations.com\/en\/first-decision-to-interpret-the-new-rules-on-late-delivery-of-expert-reports\/","title":{"rendered":"First Decision to Interpret the New Rules on Late Delivery of Expert Reports"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In my post on the new rules that came into force on March 31, 2022<\/a>, pertaining to the service of expert reports, this recent decision is the first to be released touching on its interpretation in connection with a motion seeking leave to have the trial adjourned.<\/p>\n

The case involved a plaintiff starting a personal injury trial without any expert reports on some key areas of damage quantification: loss of income and medical rehabilitative expenses.\u00a0 The plaintiff’s lawyer explained that this was by choice, because the Plaintiff didn\u2019t have the money to acquire those reports.\u00a0 Likely after realizing the folly in proceeding without the expert reports, the plaintiff\u2019s lawyer was able to quickly connect with some experts, and lobbied for a short adjournment of the trial to give these experts time to prepare reports.<\/p>\n

The trial judge carefully considered the old and new version of Rule 53.08, and concluded that the new version of the rule changed the landscape for adjournment requests.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In this regard, the judge pointed out that the old rule effectively required judges to grant adjournments because the old rule said adjournments \u201cshall be granted<\/span>\u201d unless costs were inadequate to compensate the prejudice caused to the other side, or the adjournment required was too excessively long.<\/p>\n

Where the old rule provided that leave of the trial judge \u201cshall be granted\u201d, the new rule was now permissive: using the language \u201cmay be granted<\/span>.\u201d\u00a0 In addition, the new version of Rule 53.08 also added a requirement for the defaulting party to show that there was a \u201creasonable explanation\u201d for their failure to serve a timely expert report.\u00a0<\/p>\n

After considering the reason the Plaintiff was in default, the judge concluded that he was not provided with a reasonable explanation for the adjournment request, and the adjournment request was denied.<\/p>\n

It is not abundantly clear from the decision whether the judge was taking the position that impecuniosity could never be a satisfactory \u201cexplanation\u201d for failing to obtain and serve timely expert reports, but the way I read this decision, I don\u2019t think the judge was making such a broad of a statement.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Rather, the judge appeared to be more critical over the lack of \u201cevidence\u201d tendered on the alleged impecuniosity.\u00a0 For example, there was no explanation for why the plaintiff\u2019s lawyer wasn\u2019t funding the disbursement as part of a contingency fee arrangement.\u00a0 The judge wasn\u2019t, in my view, saying that the lawyers must fund the expert reports, but rather the judge was taking judicial notice that this was the normal way expert reports were funded in personal injury claims, and the judge would have appreciated receiving some substantive evidence on why the plaintiff in this personal injury case was deviating from the norm.\u00a0 The judge was also critical that no evidence was tendered to establish that the plaintiff was impecunious: it was simply statements being made by the plaintiff\u2019s lawyer, which is not evidence.<\/p>\n

The take-away is that if impecuniosity is the reason for the late delivery of an expert report, it would be prudent to file an affidavit squarely addressing these issues. \u00a0In addition, I would also contend that the affidavit should provide an explanation for why the impecuniosity impediment that prevented the party from obtaining a timely expert report for so long, was now no longer an impediment: what changed?<\/p>\n

Agha v. Munroe<\/em><\/strong>, 2022 ONSC 2508<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.canlii.org\/en\/on\/onsc\/doc\/2022\/2022onsc2508\/2022onsc2508.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In my post on the new rules that came into force on March 31, 2022, pertaining to the service of expert reports, this recent decision is the first to be released touching on its interpretation in connection with a motion seeking leave to have the trial adjourned. 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