What is the standard of review on appeal of a question of law?
Ontario, Canada
The following excerpt is from Milloy v. Complex Services Inc., 2018 ONSC 3590 (CanLII):
The standard of review on an appeal of a question of law is correctness. With respect to errors of fact, the appellant must show that the trial judge has made a palpable and overriding error (Housen v. Nikolaisen, [2002] S.C.R. 235, at paras. 8 and 10).
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