What is the standard of review for a decision under review?

British Columbia, Canada


The following excerpt is from Ching v. Superintendent of Motor Vehicles, 2009 BCSC 1189 (CanLII):

The parties agree that the applicable standard of review is reasonableness. The court must ask whether the decision under review is “...within a range of possible, acceptable outcomes which are defensible in respect of the facts and the law”: Dunsmuir v. New Brunswick, 2008 SCC 9, [2008] 1 S.C.R. 190 at para. 47.

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