What is the standard of review of a trial judge’s findings of fact?
Ontario, Canada
The following excerpt is from Vist v Best Theratronics Ltd., 2015 ONSC 2619 (CanLII):
The standard of review of the trial judge’s findings of fact is deference: whether she made a palpable and overriding error. The standard of review of questions of law is correctness: see Dunsmuir v. N.B.
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