What is the standard of review for findings of fact by judges?
Ontario, Canada
The following excerpt is from Clarksburg Contractors Limited v. Saks, 2012 ONSC 4903 (CanLII):
Housen v. Nikolaisen[3] provides guidance on the standard of review for findings of fact by judges. As the court stated: The standard of review for findings of fact is that such findings are not to be reversed unless it can be established that the trial judge made a “palpable and overriding error”.
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