What is the test for estimating future income loss expectations?

British Columbia, Canada


The following excerpt is from Scelsa v. Taylor, 2016 BCSC 1122 (CanLII):

The future expectation that leads to an income loss must be a substantially possible one; conducive to the estimation of chances that future will occur: Steward v. Berezan, 2007 BCCA 150 at para. 17.

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