What is the test for giving evidence that “gives colour” to the charge?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Todoruk v. Trapp, 2005 BCSC 1702 (CanLII):
The phrase used in the cases is that the evidence tendered “gives colour to the charge” or that there is a “prima facie case” of fraud: Dixon v. Canada (Deputy Attorney General), [1991] O.J. No. 1735 (O.H.C.J.).
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