An adjournment application made mid-trial to call additional witnesses will be refused where the proposed evidence could not have achieved its stated purpose, there was no adequate explanation for the failure to arrange the evidence before trial, and the documents had been available for inspection for weeks prior to trial. The principles in Aon Risk Services apply to adjournment applications in serious injury proceedings. A trial judge's assessment of an applicant's credit in a serious injury application will not be disturbed where the judge identified multiple inconsistencies and gave detailed reasons for rejecting the evidence.
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