What standard of review applies to errors in law?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Mullens v. Toor, 2017 BCCA 384 (CanLII):
With respect to errors of law, the standard of review is correctness, and failure to consider a required element of a legal test is an error in law: Housen v. Nikolaisen, 2002 SCC 33 at paras. 8 and 36.
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