What is the discount rate for the purpose of determining the appropriate discount rate?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Duncan v. Brown, 2014 BCSC 153 (CanLII):
Mr. Justice Truscott in Ulmer v. Weidmann, 2011 BCSC 130, considered whether the discount rate should be 2.5 percent or 3.5 percent. After considering a number of cases, he dealt with this choice and said:
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