What is the effect of the BCCA's policy of setting a guideline salary for the purpose of determining the appropriate amount for the purposes of guideline purposes?

British Columbia, Canada


The following excerpt is from Harras v. Lhotka, 2016 BCCA 246 (CanLII):

This passage has been held to stand for the proposition that “wherever possible, salaries should be fixed for guideline purposes on the basis of amounts actually earned”: Wallace v. Wallace, 2000 BCCA 81 (CanLII) at para. 19.

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