What is the test for determining a plaintiff’s future earnings capacity?

British Columbia, Canada


The following excerpt is from Chabot v. Chaube, 2014 BCSC 300 (CanLII):

A judge tasked with determining the plaintiff’s future loss of earning capacity must account for all substantial possibilities and to assign weight to them according to how likely they are to occur in light of all the evidence: Parypa v. Wickware, 1999 BCCA 88 as cited in Perren at para. 14.

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