A recent trilogy of cases from the Supreme Court of Canada, including White Burgess Langille Inman v Abbott and Haliburton Co [White Burgess], dealt with the “threshold” principles for admissibility of expert evidence. This paper provides a brief summary of the enhanced expert evidence framework as a result of White Burgess, and then reviews recent Alberta decisions that implement that framework.

This paper is part of a collection presented at LESA’s Civil Advocacy Series: Evidence program in Edmonton on May 2, 2017 and in Calgary on May 4, 2017.