How much is a person required to put up with some inconvenience?

British Columbia, Canada


The following excerpt is from Chiang v. Yang, 1999 BCPC 29 (CanLII):

Thus a person is required to put up with some inconvenience but not to the point where the invasion becomes demonstrably harmful by objective standards: per Mr. Justice Selbie in Raith v. Coles, [1984] B.C.J. No. 772 (B.C.S.C.).

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