What is the test for a reasonably-minded person of ample means to incur a particular expense?

British Columbia, Canada


The following excerpt is from Bieling v Morris, 2021 BCSC 1905 (CanLII):

The question has often been framed as being whether a reasonably-minded person of ample means would be ready to incur a particular expense: Andrews v. Grand & Toy Alberta Ltd., 1978 CanLII 1 (SCC), [1978] 2 S.C.R. 229 at p. 245.

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