What standard of review applies to a question of law and fact?
Nova Scotia, Canada
The following excerpt is from R. v. Kontuk, 2012 NSSC 204 (CanLII):
For questions of law, the standard of review is correctness. For questions of fact, it is overriding and palpable error. For questions of mixed law and fact, it is also palpable and overriding error, unless a question of law is readily extricable. In that situation, the standard of correctness applies to that question of law. See, Housen v. Nikolaisen, 2002 SCC 33.
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