What is the required first step in a claim for damages?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Marchant v Marnow, 2019 BCSC 1652 (CanLII):
The Court of Appeal has confirmed that under the first step what is required is: "…more than an arguable case, and may be met by an assessment that does not reach the ‘bound to succeed’ threshold”: Tracy v. Instaloans Financial Solutions Centres (B.C.) Ltd., 2007 BCCA 481 at para. 54.
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