What is a cause of action for personal injury?

British Columbia, Canada


The following excerpt is from White v Schultz, 2021 BCSC 1835 (CanLII):

A cause of action is a factual situation which entitles one person to obtain from the court a remedy against another person: Mohl v. U.B.C., 2006 BCCA 70 at para. 23.

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