What is the test for a slip and fall?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Fulber v. Browns Social House Ltd., 2013 BCSC 1760 (CanLII):
I will quote from the decision of Mr. Justice Cohen in Van Slee v. Canada Safeway Limited, 2008 BCSC 107 [Van Slee], at paragraph 31. He wrote: [A] plaintiff must prove: first, what condition or hazard caused her slip and fall; and, second, that the condition or hazard existed due to a breach of duty by the defendant
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