What is the correctness standard for questions of law and procedural fairness?
Ontario, Canada
The following excerpt is from Law Society of Ontario v. Hutton, 2021 ONLSTA 23 (CanLII):
In accordance with Housen v. Nikolaisen, we apply the correctness standard for questions of law and the standard of palpable and overriding error to questions of fact and questions of mixed fact and law from which no question of law is extricable. As for questions of procedural fairness, we apply the correctness standard.
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