Q- You are representing a client at a hearing before a tribunal that will last several weeks. Before the hearing, you prepare a book of authorities containing court decisions that support your interpretation of the law. At the beginning of the hearing, you provide copies of the book to the tribunal members and the other parties, with the intention of using the cases to support your argument at the end of the hearing.

Shortly after the hearing begins, you discover that a court in a different province has come to the opposite conclusion about the interpretation of a law in a case that is almost identical to one of the decisions in your book of authorities on which you intend to rely.

a.Do you do anything, and if so, what and when?

b.What if the conflicting decision is in relation to a similar law, but was made by a court in a different country?