Is there any case law that supports the argument that a mental disability is not a mental illness?

British Columbia, Canada


The following excerpt is from Lewis v. Hour of Power Canada and another, 2018 BCHRT 251 (CanLII):

Medical evidence is not the only basis upon which a mental disability can be proved. I am entitled to consider the whole of the evidence on this issue: Miscisco v. Small et al, 2001 BCCA 576 at para. 2.

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