Does a judge have a duty to assess the overall fairness and reasonableness of an award?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from McColl v. Sullivan, 2021 BCCA 181 (CanLII):
They say that once the present value had been determined, the judge had a duty to assess the “overall fairness and reasonableness of the award”: Rosvold v. Dunlop, 2001 BCCA 1 at para. 11.
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