What is the impact of the Court of Appeal Tribunal’s "unreasonable" and "patently unreasonable" interpretation of policy by the tribunal?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Cima v. Workers Compensation Appeal Tribunal, 2016 BCSC 931 (CanLII):
Decisions regarding interpretation of policy and how they should be applied are to receive the highest level of deference by the court: Preast v. Workers’ Compensation Appeal Tribunal, 2015 BCCA 377 at paras. 52-54. However, decisions based on no evidence are patently unreasonable.
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