"STANDARDS OF REVIEW is the first Canadian book to be devoted to this aspect of the judicial system."

The first edition is quoted extensively by Canadian courts, including the Supreme Court of Canada.

Features

• is updated to include recent case law, including recent pronouncements on the standards of review from the Supreme Court of Canada.
• contains a new chapter on administrative law.
• provides a summary of the standards of review that are used by Canadian courts and provides a comparison to the standards used in other jurisdictions (including the United Kingdom and the United States).
• gives lawyers insight into when and why appeal courts use the standards they do to review decisions, and enables lawyers to predict to some degree important matters such as when appeal court judges will be inclined to defer to the trial judge and when they will substitute their own reasoning.
• explains the important distinction between matters of law and matters of fact and the effect each has when appealing.
• pays particular attention to the important distinction between reviewing for unreasonableness and reviewing for correctness.

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