What is the standard of review of an order by a judge regarding support for a plaintiff?
Ontario, Canada
The following excerpt is from Cassidy v. McNeil, 2010 ONCA 218 (CanLII):
I observe that the standard of review precludes an appellate court from interfering with a trial judge's discretionary decision regarding support absent an error in principle, a significant misapprehension of the evidence or unless the order is clearly [page92 ]wrong: see Hickey v. Hickey, 1999 CanLII 691 (SCC), [1999] 2 S.C.R. 518, [1999] S.C.J. No. 9, at para 11.
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