Is there any case law in which a litigant has been found to have committed a deliberate falsehood or exaggeration?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Nagaria v Dhaliwal, 2018 BCSC 569 (CanLII):
Le v. Milburn is a case which contains an oft-cited paragraph authored by Southin J. (as she then was) as follows: When a litigant practices to deceive, whether by deliberate falsehood or gross exaggeration, the court has much difficulty in disentangling the truth from the web of deceit and exaggeration. If, in the course of the disentangling of the web, the court casts aside as untrue something that was indeed true, the litigant has only himself or herself to blame. In this case there has been some deliberate falsehood and some exaggeration.
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