How have courts interpreted the reasonableness standard in cases?

British Columbia, Canada


The following excerpt is from Sevin v. Prince George (City), 2012 BCSC 1236 (CanLII):

Similarly, in Dunsmuir v. New Brunswick, [2008] 1 S.C.R. 190, 2008 SCC 9, the reasons for the majority stated at para. 54: Guidance with regard to the questions that will be reviewed on a reasonableness standard can be found in the existing case law. Deference will usually result where a tribunal is interpreting its own statute or statutes closely connected to its function, with which it will have particular familiarity ...

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