What is the appropriate standard of review in a personal injury action?

British Columbia, Canada


The following excerpt is from Montanari v British Columbia (Superintendent of Motor Vehicles), 2018 BCSC 1960 (CanLII):

Both parties agree that the appropriate standard of review is reasonableness based upon the decision in Dunsmuir v. New Brunswick, 2008 SCC 9. In Dunsmuir at para. 47, a majority of the court refined the content of the reasonableness standard as follows:

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