What is the impact of the real and substantial possibility principle on the assessment of future income earning capacity?

British Columbia, Canada


The following excerpt is from Woloschuk v Neuman, 2021 BCSC 940 (CanLII):

In Grewal v. Naumann, 2017 BCCA 158 [Grewal], Justice Goepel provided a summary with respect to the assessment of the loss of past and future income earning capacity, including the application of the “real and substantial possibility” principle:

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