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Contract law 2024 BCSC 763

Kim v. Argo Ventures Inc.

The Court dismissed the APEM incentive and unjust enrichment claims, but upheld the RSJV liquidation incentive claim, awarding damages against Argo Ventures Inc.

  • Oral agreement
  • Contract formation
  • Anticipatory repudiation
  • Severance of uncertain terms
  • Damages calculation
  • Pre-judgment interest
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Arbitration 2022 ONCA 769

Mensula Bancorp Inc. v. Halton Condominium Corporation No. 137

The Court allowed the appeal and restored the arbitrator's award because the arbitrator acted within his jurisdiction by interpreting the condominium declaration; under s.46(1)3 a court may not set aside an award merely because it disagrees with or finds the arbitrator's interpretation unreasonable or incorrect, and the application judge erred by treating alleged interpretive flaws as jurisdictional excess.

  • Judicial review of arbitral awards under s.46(1)3
  • Scope of arbitrator's jurisdiction
  • Interpretation of condominium declaration
  • Use of surrounding circumstances in contract interpretation
  • Condominium act access and common elements (s.116, s.132, s.109)
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Insurance law 2019 NLCA 76

Liberty Mutual Insurance v. Intact Insurance

The claimant was injured while taking steps to enter the employer's vehicle (even though entry was not completed); that conduct falls within the Policy and Act definitions of "occupant," making the insurer of the employer's vehicle (Intact) primarily liable for payment of accident insurance benefits; the applications judge erred by applying an improper objective common sense test and ignoring the claimant's testimony of attempting to get into the vehicle.

  • Occupant definition
  • Priority of insurer liability
  • No-fault accident benefits
  • Standard form policy interpretation
  • Section 35 and 38 automobile insurance act
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Property law 2019 BCSC 2051

Skene v. Ucluelet (District)

The Court cancelled a statutory right of way over the petitioners’ property, finding the instrument invalid for uncertainty and unenforceable positive obligations.

  • Statutory right of way
  • Certainty of servitudes
  • Unenforceable positive covenants
  • Pla s.35 grounds
  • Land title act requirements
  • Obsolescence of land charges
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Trusts 2017 BCSC 340

Dusanjh v. Appleton

The court held Article 27 of Oak Bay Marina Ltd.’s articles did not create a trust for the petitioners, so their claims to the preferred shares failed.

  • Certainty of intention
  • Certainty of subject matter
  • Preferred shares
  • Articles of incorporation
  • Parol evidence/factual matrix
  • Testamentary vs inter vivos trust
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Property law 2016 NSSC 9

PATCO Developments Ltd. v. 3195972 Nova Scotia Ltd.

The deed's right-of-way language was clear and did not create an express easement to use all water, sewer and utility connections, but an equitable easement was established because the vendor promised completion of road/water/sewer, the purchaser of the dominant tenement relied and connected its building to those services, and 3195972 had notice of those arrangements; accordingly PATCO is entitled to an equitable easement as used and a permanent injunction preventing interference with services.

  • Easement
  • Proprietary estoppel
  • Equitable easement
  • Common intention
  • Injunction
  • Notice
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Contract law 2009 NSSC 184

Gates v. Croft

There was a valid written agreement, the contract unambiguously required a $5,000 deposit payable within 48 hours and expressly made time of the essence, the deposit was not paid before the defendant lawfully terminated, there was no proven unconscionability or waiver (defendant lacked knowledge of any waiver), and the plaintiff's failure to pay constituted a fundamental breach entitling the defendant to terminate; accordingly the plaintiff's action is dismissed.

  • Formation of contract
  • Time is of the essence
  • Deposit as condition precedent
  • Waiver
  • Unconscionability
  • Fundamental breach
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Family law 2008 BCSC 1523

Helme v. Claus

The court held that “education costs” in an incorporated separation agreement was broad enough to include private school fees, so the motion could proceed.

  • Enforcement of separation agreement
  • Interpretation of 'including' and ejusdem generis
  • Allocation of private school costs
  • Rule 60 procedural requirements
  • Family-law
  • Contract-interpretation
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