What is the standard of review for errors of mixed fact and law?
Alberta, Canada
The following excerpt is from Purba v. Purba, 2009 ABCA 32 (CanLII):
The standard of review for errors of law is correctness, while the standard of review for errors of mixed fact and law is palpable and overriding error. Support orders should not be overturned “unless the reasons disclose an error in principle, a significant misapprehension of the evidence, or unless the award is clearly wrong”: Hickey v. Hickey, 1999 CanLII 691 (SCC), [1999] 2 S.C.R. 518, 172 D.L.R. (4th) 577 at para. 11.
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