What is the standard of palpable and overriding error on a contract?
Alberta, Canada
The following excerpt is from Financial Management Inc. v. Planidin, 2006 ABCA 44 (CanLII):
These are questions of mixed fact and law, which are reviewable on the standard of palpable and overriding error unless a purely legal question can be extricated, in which case the standard is that of correctness: Housen v. Nikolaisen, [2002] 2 S.C.R. 235, 2002 SCC 33 (CanLII) at paras. 27 and 36. Was the appellant personally liable on the contract?
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