What is the test for believing or reasonable grounds in a civil case?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from R. v. Legebokoff, 2014 BCSC 315 (CanLII):
Belief or reasonable grounds has both a subjective and an objective component. The officer must have a subjective belief in the grounds justifying the actions taken and those grounds must be objectively reasonable in the circumstances. The constitutional balance required between the reasonable expectation of privacy and the legitimate needs of the state to detect and prevent crime requires the application of an objective standard. Hunter v. Southam, 1984 CanLII 33 (SCC), [1984] 2 S.C.R. 145.
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