What is the test for determining whether a decision is patently unreasonable?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Potherat v Slobodian, 2021 BCSC 1536 (CanLII):
In determining whether a decision is patently unreasonable, the court is required to examine both the reasons and the outcome. In Sherstobitoff v. British Columbia (Workers’ Compensation Appeal Tribunal), 2019 BCSC 1659 at para. 52 the court stated reasons “are to be read as an organic whole, not parsed or dissected in search of error”.
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