How have the Courts in BC considered proportionality considerations?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Rainville v. Zheng, 2017 BCSC 767 (CanLII):
In her submissions, counsel for the defendant submits that the proportionality considerations need to be given considerable weight in this case. I was helpfully directed to a decision of Mr. Justice Voith in Kasim v. Spittel, 2013 BCSC 2422, where at paras. 23-26 Voith J. writes:
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