Is there any case law in which a defendant has been found to have misrepresented or exaggerated the facts?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Liu v. Bipinchandra, 2016 BCSC 283 (CanLII):
Furthermore, nearly 30 years ago, Southin J., as she then was, in Le v. Milburn, [1987] B.C.J. No. 2690 at para. 2 (S.C.), in comments that are apposite, observed: When a litigant practises to deceive, whether by deliberate falsehood or gross exaggeration, the court has much difficulty in disentangling the truth from the web of deceit and exaggeration. If, in the course of the disentangling of the web, the court casts aside as untrue something that was indeed true, the litigant has only himself or herself to blame. In this case there has been some deliberate falsehood and some exaggeration.
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