Is there any case law in which a trial judge was wrong in finding that a plaintiff was not entitled to be held liable for sexual assault?

British Columbia, Canada


The following excerpt is from Michel v. Doe, 2009 BCCA 225 (CanLII):

On the evidence, I am unable to say the trial judge was plainly wrong in that conclusion: Housen v. Nikolaisen, 2002 SCC 33, [2002] 2 S.C.R. 235.

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