What is the test for establishing a cause-and-effect relationship?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from A1800296 (Re), 2019 CanLII 45878 (BC WCAT):
The analysis of causation is not simply a function of applying the Latin maxim “post hoc ergo propter hoc” (roughly translated as “after that therefore because of that”). The evidence of a temporal relationship, alone, is not proof of a cause-and-effect relationship. The unpersuasive nature of this kind of rationale is so well recognized that the courts developed the Latin maxim above to capture the deficiency of such reason (see White v. Stonestreet, 2006 BCSC 801).
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