What is the difference between questions of law and fact?
Saskatchewan, Canada
The following excerpt is from Cassidy v. Blaine Lake Rural Telephone Company, 1933 CanLII 199 (SK CA):
It may not always be easy to distinguish between questions of law and mixed questions of law and fact, but the existence of these two distinct classes of questions is acknowledged by lawyers, as appears from what was said by Lord Atkinson, in Hutchinson v. M’Kinnon [1916] 1 A.C. 471, 85 L.J.P.C. 98, a case arising out of the English Workmen’s Compensation Act 1906, ch. 58: My point upon these, findings in the words of the statute is this—that they may often involve decisions purely on points of law, often decisions on mixed questions of law and fact, and often decisions on questions of pure fact.
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