What is the current state of the law on subjective evidence?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Sevinski v. Vance, 2011 BCSC 892 (CanLII):
More recently, in Eccleston v. Dresen, 2009 BCSC 332, at para. 66, Barrow J. accepted that claims supported by only subjective evidence should be viewed with a “skeptical eye”. He further confirmed, however, that such claims can be supported by the “convincing force of collateral evidence”.
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