Does a judge have to set out the grounds for departure from the SSAG?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Sebok v. Babits, 2022 BCCA 2 (CanLII):
… While there is no necessity for a judge to set out the grounds for departure from the SSAG (Beninger v. Beninger, 2009 BCCA 458), where there is no apparent cause for doing so and reasons are not given, there is less justification for deference to the exercise of the trial judge’s discretion.
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