What is the test for a litigant to be found guilty of gross exaggeration?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Daemore v. Von Windheim, 2011 BCSC 1523 (CanLII):
The comments of Southin J., as she then was, in Le v. Milburn, [1987] B.C.J. No. 2690, are apposite and inform the whole of this analysis: When a litigant practices 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. ...
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