Le grand constitutionnaliste Peter Hogg soutient que la norme de preuve en matière civile est probablement le seul critère réaliste à notre disposition, comparativement au critère plus restrictif qui s'applique en matière criminelle, mais il en souligne également les risques.
Peter Hogg, the great constitutional scholar, says this is probably the only realistic test that is available to us, that is, the test applied by the civil law rather than the more restrictive test applied by the criminal law, but he does stress that it too has its dangers.