Does the Court of Appeal have any authority to give deference to a "patentently unreasonable" decision?

New Brunswick, Canada


The following excerpt is from O'Dell v. Province of New Brunswick, 2004 NBQB 76 (CanLII):

In Law Society of New Brunswick v. Ryan, supra, Justice Iacobucci, at paragraph 52, characterized a patently unreasonable decision as one that is "so flawed that no amount of curial deference can justify letting it stand."

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