What is the test for determining whether a reasonable person has acted in a reasonable manner?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Harry v. British Columbia, 2002 BCCA 557 (CanLII):
The test, while ultimately the objective one of "the reasonable person", requires consideration of the plaintiff’s subjective knowledge of "his or her own circumstances and interests". I see no error in the judge’s statement that: Here the trial judge will have to consider the actions of a reasonable person in the particular plaintiff’s circumstances: Novak v. Bond, 1999 CanLII 685 (SCC), [1999] 1 S.C.R. 808.
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