What is the applicable standard of review for the purpose of determining whether a decision was reasonable?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from M.H. v Legal Services Society of British Columbia, 2018 BCSC 195 (CanLII):
As I have noted, the parties agree that the applicable standard of review asks whether the decision was reasonable. This is a deferential standard of review, concerned with “the existence of justification, transparency and intelligibility within the decision-making process”. It asks “whether the decision falls within a range of possible, acceptable outcomes which are defensible in respect of the facts and law”: Dunsmuir v. New Brunswick, 2008 SCC 9 at para. 47.
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