What is the test for estimating future earnings capacity for a plaintiff?

British Columbia, Canada


The following excerpt is from Corness v Ng, 2022 BCSC 334 (CanLII):

The plaintiff has an earnings history which assists in estimating what his likely future earning capacity will be, as stated in Hosseinzadeh v. Leung, 2014 BCSC 2260 at para. 126:

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