What is the impact of a future hypothetical event on a future contingency plan?

British Columbia, Canada


The following excerpt is from O’Connell v. Yung, 2010 BCSC 1764 (CanLII):

Contingencies involve future hypothetical events, which are to be considered as long as they are a real and substantial possibility: Athey v. Leonati at para. 27.

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