In finding that testimony of a lawyer as to the enforceability of an agreement was opinion evidence as to a matter of law which should not have been admitted, Nadon, J.A. quoted with approval a statement from Sopinka, The Law of Evidence in Canada, that "'questions of domestic laws as opposed to foreign law are not matters on which a court will receive opinion evidence'."
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