What is the standard of care applicable to a reasonably competent family law practitioner?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Newton v. Marzban, 2008 BCSC 328 (CanLII):
Halfyard J. in Van Duzen v. Lecovin, 2004 BCSC 1333 at para. 36 set out the standard of care applicable to a reasonably competent family law practitioner: Would a lawyer who possessed reasonable knowledge of family law, and who had reasonable ability to use that knowledge in the practice of family law litigation, have done what the defendant omitted to do, or have avoided doing what the defendant did do?
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