How much would a plaintiff have earned in the past?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Singh v Reddy, 2020 BCSC 448 (CanLII):
Projecting what a plaintiff would have earned in the past had she not been injured is a hypothetical exercise. While the standard of proof relating to actual past events is a balance of probabilities, a hypothetical possibility will be taken into consideration as long as it is a real and substantial possibility and not mere speculation: Grewal v. Naumann, 2017 BCCA 158 at para. 48.
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