The appellant appealed an order granting a request for international judicial assistance (letters rogatory) from a United States District Court.
The respondents sought to examine the appellant, a former manager of a Canadian oil company's subsidiary, regarding the company's alleged complicity in human rights violations in Sudan.
The Court of Appeal allowed the appeal, finding that while the request did not violate Canadian public policy, it was framed in terms so broad and general that the record could not sustain a finding that the evidence sought was relevant, necessary, or not otherwise obtainable.
