An expert on the Supreme Court of Canada says a British Columbia ostrich farm faces an uphill battle "with very low odds" to get a hearing to stop the cull of about 400 birds.

Emmett Macfarlane, a political-science professor at the University of Waterloo, has written a book on Canada's highest court and says the court focuses on cases where there is a question that needs to be clarified about the law, not to re-litigate possible errors in individual situations.

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