What are the principles governing the court’s approach to assessing evidence where there are significantly different versions of the evidence?

British Columbia, Canada


The following excerpt is from Absolute Industries Ltd. v. Harris, 2014 BCSC 287 (CanLII):

In Bradshaw v. Stenner, 2010 BCSC 1398 at paras. 186-187, aff’d 2012 BCCA 296, Madam Justice Dillon provided a useful summary of the principles governing the court’s approach to assessing the evidence where there are significantly different versions of events advanced by the parties:

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