Is there any case law that supports the argument that the doctrine of common law must be interpreted in the context of the common law context?

British Columbia, Canada


The following excerpt is from Ali v Padam, 2017 BCSC 1849 (CanLII):

The same approach was utilized by McEachern, C.J.S.C. in Fontanella v. Lunot, [1986] B.C.J. No. 1341 (S.C.) [Fontanella], although not without reservations about the breadth of the so-called rule:

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