What is the test for reversing a decision by the Supreme Court in a motion to overturn a finding of error?
Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
The following excerpt is from Newfound Disposal Limited v. Chaytor Estate, 2002 NFCA 22 (CanLII):
As Chief Justice Wells wrote (at paragraph 33) in Cooper v. Cooper: [T]he fact that [the trial judge] may have come to a conclusion different than the one to which I might have come is not a basis, sufficient in law, for me to conclude that his decision should be reversed. It is as simple as that. (emphasis in the original)
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