Does the term "manifestly flawed" mean that a judge is manifestly flawed?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Greenlees v. British Columbia (Superintendent of Motor Vehicles), 2016 BCSC 413 (CanLII):
In Kenyon v. British Columbia (Superintendent of Motor Vehicles), 2015 BCCA 485, at paras. 54-55, the court concluded that “manifestly flawed” does not mean that the judge is: …not intended to replace the requirement that judicial review judges should review the reasons as a whole in order to assess whether the pathway to the conclusion is reasonable.
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