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| Patrick Ducharme |
The party requesting the adjournment must show:
1. The absent witness is material; and,
2. No neglect in procuring (or attempting to procure) the attendance of the absent witness, and,
3. There is a reasonable expectation the absent witness can be located and presented as a witness in relatively near future.
These three requirements for adjourning a trial based on an absent witness whose evidence is material were first required by the Supreme Court of Canada over sixty years ago, and these three requirements have been used assiduously by courts across Canada since this venerable decision in 1956.
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