In what circumstances will the BCSC find a litigant to be responsible for misrepresenting the facts of a claim?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from L.S.D. v. K.K.D., 2013 BCSC 1462 (CanLII):
In Le v. Milburn [1987] B.C.J. No. 2690 (BCSC), Southin J., stated: When a litigant practises to deceive, whether by deliberate falsehood or gross exaggeration, the court has much difficulty in disentangling the truth from the web of deceit and exaggeration. If, in the course of the disentangling of the web, the court casts aside as untrue something that was indeed true, the litigant has only himself or herself to blame. In this case there has been some deliberate falsehood and some exaggeration.
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