Can a judge interfere with a trial judge's findings of fact?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from R. v. Gibson, 2010 BCCA 291 (CanLII):
This Court does not have the ability to interfere with the trial judge’s findings of fact in the absence of palpable and overriding error (Housen v. Nikolaisen). The trial judge’s findings in this case were supported by the evidence, and she did not fall into such error.
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