Can a hypothetical question be considered moot?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Le Soleil Hospitality Inc. v. Louie, 2010 BCSC 1183 (CanLII):
Courts generally decline to decide cases which raise merely hypothetical questions. Occasionally, however, a court may exercise its discretion to address an issue that is moot. For example, if an important question arises recurrently, but only briefly, the court may decide to answer it even though there is no longer a live controversy in the case: Borowski v. Canada (Attorney General), 1989 CanLII 123 (SCC), [1989] 1 S.C.R. 342 at 358-363.
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