Saskatchewan v Racette,

JurisdictionSaskatchewan
JudgeOttenbreit, Schwann and Tholl JJ.A.
Citation2020 SKCA 2
Date03 January 2020
CourtCourt of Appeal (Saskatchewan)
Docket NumberCACV3161

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19 practice notes
  • Opinion Evidence
    • Canada
    • Criminal Law Series Modern Criminal Evidence
    • May 3, 2021
    ..., 2003 ABQB 1017 at paras 48-73, 90-97. R v Pahle , 2019 ONSC 7596 at para 33. In the civil context, see e.g., Saskatchewan v Racette , 2020 SKCA 2 (CanLII) at paras 56-61; Downey v Burroughs , 2021 NSSC 147 (Smith CJ). 25 Mugabo , supra note 22; R v Steinbach , 1998 CanLII 15018 at paras 1......
  • ATCO Energy Solutions Ltd v Energy Dynamics Ltd,
    • Canada
    • Court of King's Bench of Alberta (Canada)
    • March 26, 2024
    ...2023 ABKB 108 at paras 399-404; Annett v Enterprise Rent-A-Car Canada Ltd, 2019 ABQB 734 at paras 207-213; Racette v Saskatchewan, 2020 SKCA 2 at para 61, leave to appeal to SCC refused, 39060 (7 May 2020). In my view, the limitations include that (1) the opinion must be relevant to an issu......
  • T.C. v A.E.,
    • Canada
    • Court of Appeal (Saskatchewan)
    • May 20, 2021
    ...on their own initiative” (at para 216). [61]        As set out in Saskatchewan v Racette, 2020 SKCA 2, [2020] 8 WWR 84, “a trial judge, as the impartial arbiter, must generally refrain from interfering in the conduct of the litigation it......
  • R v Sandhu,
    • Canada
    • Court of Appeal (Saskatchewan)
    • August 20, 2025
    ...271 CCC (3d) 208; R v Potter, 2020 NSCA 9 at paras 411–423, 385 CCC (3d) 1; see also, in the civil context: Saskatchewan v Racette, 2020 SKCA 2 at paras 58–61, [2020] 8 WWR 84; Wynward Insurance Group v Smith Building and Development Ltd., 2023 SKCA 57 at paras 24–25, 483 DLR (4th) 51; West......
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18 cases
  • ATCO Energy Solutions Ltd v Energy Dynamics Ltd,
    • Canada
    • Court of King's Bench of Alberta (Canada)
    • March 26, 2024
    ...2023 ABKB 108 at paras 399-404; Annett v Enterprise Rent-A-Car Canada Ltd, 2019 ABQB 734 at paras 207-213; Racette v Saskatchewan, 2020 SKCA 2 at para 61, leave to appeal to SCC refused, 39060 (7 May 2020). In my view, the limitations include that (1) the opinion must be relevant to an issu......
  • T.C. v A.E.,
    • Canada
    • Court of Appeal (Saskatchewan)
    • May 20, 2021
    ...on their own initiative” (at para 216). [61]        As set out in Saskatchewan v Racette, 2020 SKCA 2, [2020] 8 WWR 84, “a trial judge, as the impartial arbiter, must generally refrain from interfering in the conduct of the litigation it......
  • R v Sandhu,
    • Canada
    • Court of Appeal (Saskatchewan)
    • August 20, 2025
    ...271 CCC (3d) 208; R v Potter, 2020 NSCA 9 at paras 411–423, 385 CCC (3d) 1; see also, in the civil context: Saskatchewan v Racette, 2020 SKCA 2 at paras 58–61, [2020] 8 WWR 84; Wynward Insurance Group v Smith Building and Development Ltd., 2023 SKCA 57 at paras 24–25, 483 DLR (4th) 51; West......
  • Mosiuk v BASF Canada Inc.,
    • Canada
    • Court of Appeal (Saskatchewan)
    • September 12, 2025
    ...at para 45, 352 OAC 358; Marshall v Watson Wyatt & Co. (2002), 209 DLR (4th) 411 (Ont CA) at para 15; see also Saskatchewan v Racette, 2020 SKCA 2 at para 34, [2020] 8 WWR 84, leave to appeal to SCC refused, 2020 CanLII 32301; Piche v Saskatchewan Government Insurance, 2020 SKCA 53 at p......
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1 books & journal articles
  • Opinion Evidence
    • Canada
    • Criminal Law Series Modern Criminal Evidence
    • May 3, 2021
    ..., 2003 ABQB 1017 at paras 48-73, 90-97. R v Pahle , 2019 ONSC 7596 at para 33. In the civil context, see e.g., Saskatchewan v Racette , 2020 SKCA 2 (CanLII) at paras 56-61; Downey v Burroughs , 2021 NSSC 147 (Smith CJ). 25 Mugabo , supra note 22; R v Steinbach , 1998 CanLII 15018 at paras 1......