What is the test for the doctrine of suspicious circumstances?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Wilton v Koestlmaier, 2018 BCSC 1257 (CanLII):
Ballance J. then thoroughly canvassed the law on the doctrine of suspicious circumstances, paras. 200 to 207 enunciated in the leading decision Vout v. Hay, 1995 CanLII 105 (SCC), [1995] 2 S.C.R. 876 [Vout].
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