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Competition law 2025 FC 1782

Canada (Commissioner of Competition) v. Amazon.com.ca ULC

The Federal Court partly granted Amazon Canada’s motion to vary production deadlines under a Competition Act s. 11 order, extending some deadlines to December 15, 2025 but refusing longer extensions.

  • Document production
  • Extension of time
  • Applicability of federal court rules (rule 8 v rule 399)
  • Public interest in investigations
  • Privilege and quality control
  • Technology assisted review (tar)
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Administrative law 2024 CHRT 110

Heddle v. Canada Post Corporation

The Tribunal found the Respondent’s affidavit evidence and ESI search inadequate and non-transparent, refused the Respondent’s request to perform a unilateral unsupervised ESI search, and ordered the Respondent to prepare, in consultation with the other parties, a detailed Proposed Plan for ESI searches (custodians, storage sites, search terms, software, de-duplication, privilege process, timelines) to be submitted to the Tribunal for approval, with specified disclosures and affidavits by set deadlines; failure to comply may lead to further remedial measures.

  • Documentary disclosure
  • Electronically stored information (esi)
  • Litigation hold
  • Affidavit admissibility
  • Procedural orders
  • Proportionality
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Civil procedure 2021 BCSC 1237

Konicek v. Vantown Infrastructure Invesco Inc.

The court held that the Leungs’ personal communications with Lawson Lundell were not privileged, ordered a limited Rule 7-5 examination of Frans Lotz, and required Vantown to obtain and produce non-privileged emails from Lawson Lundell.

  • Privilege waiver
  • Rule 7-5 pre-trial examination
  • Document production under rule 7-1
  • Proportionality of discovery
  • Duress and undue influence
  • Solicitor-client-privilege
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Banking law 2021 BCSC 1076

Marion Family Ventures Inc. v. Lam

Appeal dismissed from a master’s order requiring Stage 2 document production under Rule 7-1 in banking-negligence litigation.

  • Document production
  • Stage 2 discovery
  • Standard of care
  • Due diligence policy
  • Relevance
  • Standard of review - clearly wrong
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Civil procedure 2017 BCSC 2352

Godfrey v. Sony Corporation

The court set interim discovery and preservation deadlines in a complex class action, coordinating with parallel proceedings in Ontario and Québec.

  • Case management
  • Document production
  • Coordination of parallel proceedings
  • Preservation obligations
  • Certification appeals
  • Case-management
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Competition law 2015 FC 990

Canada (Commissioner of Competition) v. Bell Mobility Inc.

The Federal Court granted the Commissioner’s section 11 written-return orders, with modifications to address burden, response time, and E-production requirements.

  • Section 11 orders
  • Written returns
  • Scope of inquiry
  • E-production guidelines
  • Burden of production
  • Relevant period
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Construction law 2014 BCSC 551

Greg Court Developments Ltd. v. Sievert

Interlocutory discovery ruling in a construction dispute. The court limited broad electronic disclosure, ordered a narrower expert-assisted search, and made several disclosure and discovery directions.

  • Builders' lien
  • Discovery
  • Electronic disclosure
  • Privilege
  • Costs
  • Particulars
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Civil procedure 2010 BCSC 599

P.F. v. P.T.

The court dismissed a mistrial application after finding no доказive proof that the plaintiff accessed the defendant’s email account before or during trial.

  • Mistrial
  • Solicitor-client privilege
  • Unauthorized access to electronic communications
  • Electronic evidence
  • Forensic computer analysis
  • Hearsay
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Civil procedure 2009 BCSC 358

Bishop v. Minichiello

The court ordered a narrow forensic review of a family computer hard drive to isolate Facebook login/logout records relevant to sleep and wage-loss issues.

  • Production of electronic documents
  • Hard drive forensic analysis
  • Metadata
  • Relevance and probative value
  • Charter s.8 search and seizure
  • Privilege
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Evidence 2008 BCSC 1631

Honour v. Canada (Attorney General)

The court allowed broad forensic search terms for a hard drive, permitted review of unallocated clusters, and imposed a firewall order limiting disclosure of results.

  • Forensic computer search terms
  • Unallocated clusters
  • Privilege
  • Search term proportionality
  • Protective order/firewall
  • Costs
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