What is the definition of a "patently unreasonable" claim?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Ntibarimungu v. British Columbia (Social Development), 2012 BCSC 1625 (CanLII):
Patently unreasonable means not just unsupported by reasons that are capable of withstanding a probing examination, but openly, evidently and clearly unreasonable or irrational: Gichuru v. Palmar Properties Inc., 2011 BCSC 827 at para. 34.
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