What is the test for assessing the adequacy of legal advice?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from H.S.S. v. S.H.D., 2016 BCSC 1300 (CanLII):
Assessing the adequacy of legal advice is a fact-specific inquiry that cannot be distilled to a precise test: Cowper-Smith v. Morgan, 2016 BCCA 200 at para. 53.
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