What is the test for determining whether causation can be drawn even in the absence of positive or scientific proof?
Ontario, Canada
The following excerpt is from Cowan v. Hydro One, 2011 ONSC 6377 (CanLII):
The Plaintiffs have referred to Snell v. Farrell 1990 CanLII 70 (SCC), [1990] 2 S.C.R. 311, as standing for the proposition that causation need not be determined with scientific precision and that an inference of causation can be drawn even in the absence of positive or scientific proof.
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