What is the standard of review of findings of fact?
Ontario, Canada
The following excerpt is from Gareen Homes Inc. v. Mamitko, 2005 CanLII 33781 (ON SCDC):
The standard of review of findings of fact is that they are not to be reversed unless it can be shown that the trial judge made a palpable and overriding error. (Stein v. The Ship “Kathy K”, 1975 CanLII 146 (SCC), [1976] 2 S.C.R. 802).
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