What is the standard of standard for correctness, correctness and no palpable or overriding error?
Ontario, Canada
The following excerpt is from Kaur v. Deopaul, 2006 CanLII 34721 (ON SCDC):
Where the issue is one of pure law the standard is correctness. Where the issue is one of fact the standard is “no palpable or overriding error”. Where the issue is one of mixed fact and law the standard is somewhere between the two: Housen v. Nikolaisen, [2002] 2 S.C.R.
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