In what circumstances will a litigant be found liable for misrepresenting or exaggerating the facts of a claim?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Jacobs v. McLaughlin, 2008 BCSC 483 (CanLII):
In Le v. Milburn, [1988] B.C.W.L.D. 777, [1987] B.C.J. No. 2690 (B.C.S.C.), Southin J. (as she then was) wrote at para. 2: 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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