What is the effect of the Court of Appeal's decision on an application to change the name of a person to a different name?

British Columbia, Canada


The following excerpt is from Kaufmann v. Aleksich, 2015 BCSC 1598 (CanLII):

Though each of the foregoing considerations is important, the overarching objective of the court's discretion on such applications is to see that justice is done; Sutherland v. McLeod, 2004 BCCA 653 at para. 29.

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