Legal tests

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Legal tests are various kinds of commonly-applied methods of evaluation used to resolve matters of jurisprudence.^[1] In the context of a trial, a hearing, discovery, or other kinds of legal proceedings, the resolution of certain questions of fact or law may hinge on the application of one or more legal tests.

Legal tests are often formulated from the logical analysis of a judicial decision or a court order where it appears that a finder of fact or the court made a particular decision after contemplating a well-defined set of circumstances. It is assumed that evaluating any given set of circumstances under a legal test will lead to an unambiguous and repeatable result.

Contents 1 International Law 2 Common Law 3 Canada 4 United Kingdom 5 United States 6 Notes and references

[edit] International Law

• Berne three-step test
• Habitual residence test

[edit] Common Law

• "But-for" test

[edit] Canada

• Oakes test
• Patent unreasonableness test

[edit] United Kingdom

• Bolam test
• Hicklin test
• Wednesbury unreasonableness test

[edit] United States

• Consumer expectations test
• Lemon test
• Miller test
• Risk-utility test
• SLAPS test (identical to the Miller test)

[edit] Notes and references