What is the standard of review for findings of fact in a personal injury case?

Ontario, Canada


The following excerpt is from Cooper v. Toronto (City), 2019 ONSC 7486 (CanLII):

The appeal is brought pursuant to section 19(1)(c) of the Courts of Justice Act, R.S.O. 1990, c. C.43. The standard of review is set out in Housen v. Nikolaisen, 2002 SCC 33, [2002] 2 S.C.R. 235 at paras. 6-10 and 36-37. On a pure question of law, the standard of review is correctness. The standard of review for findings of fact is that such findings are not to be reversed unless it can be established that the trial judge made a “palpable and overriding error”. Questions of mixed fact and law are subject to the “palpable and overriding error” standard, unless it is clear that the trial judge made an error of law or principle that can be identified independently in the judge’s application of the law to the facts of the case.

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