What constitutes "wilfully blind" blindness?
Ontario, Canada
The following excerpt is from R. v Greensword, 2015 ONSC 3915 (CanLII):
Wilful blindness exists where the accused strongly suspects that the principal intends to commit a specific offence and deliberately chooses not to inquire. To be wilfully blind, the person must know there is a need to inquire and makes a deliberate decision to remain ignorant because he or she does not wish to know the truth: Briscoe at paras. 21-25; Sansregret v. The Queen, 1985 CanLII 79 (SCC), [1985] 1 S.C.R. 570, [1985] S.C.J. No. 23 at para. 22. The Law Applied
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