What is the test for determining whether an action has a reasonable prospect of success?

British Columbia, Canada


The following excerpt is from Jordan Enterprises Ltd. v. Barker, 2015 BCSC 559 (CanLII):

For a court to determine whether an action has a reasonable prospect of success, it must know what the cause of action is, the facts alleged to give rise to it, and the loss alleged to have been suffered by the corporation: Mikulic v. Peter at para. 12.

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