What is the Anns test?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Sheoran v (British Columbia) Interior Health, 2022 BCSC 335 (CanLII):
The Anns test was confirmed in Kamloops (City) v. Nielsen, 1984 CanLII 21, [1984] 2 S.C.R. 2. The first step of the test, a relationship of proximity or neighbourhood, is generally considered to be a low threshold. Mr. Justice Major summarized the Canadian test in Ryan v. Victoria (City), 1999 CanLII 706, [1999] 1 S.C.R. 201 [Ryan], at para. 23:
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