What is the test for determining the blameworthiness of a plaintiff in a personal injury case?

British Columbia, Canada


The following excerpt is from Senner v GE Canada Leasing Services Company, 2017 BCSC 1939 (CanLII):

The court must assess the degree of blameworthiness of each party, not the degree to which each party’s fault caused the loss: Knight v. Li, 2011 BCSC 184 at para. 25.

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