What is the test for reversing findings of fact?
Saskatchewan, Canada
The following excerpt is from Tran v Chung, 2011 SKQB 204 (CanLII):
Findings of fact may only be reversed if they represent “palpable and overriding error”. See: Housen v. Nikolaisen 2002 SCC 33, [2002] 2 S.C.R. 235 at para. 10.
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