What is the threshold for determining whether there is evidence to support a claim of sexual assault?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Workers' Compensation Appeal Tribunal v. Hill, 2009 BCSC 107 (CanLII):
The threshold is not particularly high: it is whether the evidence takes the case “out of the realm of conjecture”. Berezoutskaia v. British Columbia, 2006 BCCA 95 at paras. 24-26.
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