What is the current state of the law relating to mistake under fact and law?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Smith v. Vancouver City Savings Credit Union, 2010 BCSC 120 (CanLII):
The majority of judges who addressed the question in Air Canada v. British Columbia, 1989 CanLII 95 (SCC), [1989] 1 S.C.R. 1161, [1989] S.C.J. No. 44, concluded that the law relating to mistake applied equally to both mistake under fact and law.
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