What are the legal principles underlying the doctrine of common law common law?

British Columbia, Canada


The following excerpt is from White v. Gehricke, 2013 BCSC 377 (CanLII):

The legal principles underlying these concepts are clear, but explaining them to a jury “is no easy task” (see Laidlaw v. Couturier, 2010 BCCA 59 at para. 40). Nor is their application in varying particular factual contexts always straightforward.

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