What is the legal test for overturning a finding of fact or finding of law?
Ontario, Canada
The following excerpt is from Black v Owen, 2016 ONSC 40 (CanLII):
For findings of fact, or mixed fact and law, a trial judge’s decision should not to be reversed absent a palpable and overriding error. With respect to a question of law, the standard of review is correctness: see Housen v. Nikolaisen, [2002] S.C.R. 235, at para. 36. The Issues in this Appeal
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