What is the test for a hypothetical event?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from L.A.F. v G.M.F.C. Ltd., 2019 BCSC 2252 (CanLII):
The test to be applied to past and future hypothetical events is “whether there is a real and substantial possibility that the events in question would occur”: Rousta v. MacKay, 2018 BCCA 29 at paras. 14 and 17.
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