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Contract law 2025 BCSC 585

Forseed Haro Holdings Ltd. v. Bank of Montreal

The Court dismissed Forseed’s claim that the Bank wrongly seized pledged funds, holding the GICs were proceeds of the pledged account and that estoppel barred the challenge.

  • Pledge of cash collateral
  • Gics as proceeds
  • Attachment and perfection (ppsa)
  • Discharge of guarantor
  • Estoppel by convention
  • Appropriation and set-off
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Corporate law 2023 BCSC 1076

Kapila v. Merit Duncan Designs (Duncan) Ltd.

The court allowed most pleading amendments, including a wrongful dismissal claim and joinder of Jeet, but confined allegations about Sandy and rejected set-off.

  • Oppression remedy (s.227 bca)
  • Wrongful dismissal / breach of employment contract
  • Amendment of pleadings
  • Joinder of parties
  • Set-off
  • Estoppel/waiver
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Civil procedure 2023 BCSC 701

Zhao v. Liao

The court refused to strike the pleadings but granted summary judgment for the defendant, finding the plaintiffs had mutually terminated the agreement by reclaiming the deposit.

  • Summary judgment
  • Striking pleadings
  • Security for costs
  • Vexatious litigant order
  • Mutual termination
  • Repudiation
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Bankruptcy law 2021 NSSC 5

Gavel (Re)

The trustee is not estopped from asserting claims prior to a conditional or absolute discharge and the Court is not bound by a trustee’s unilateral calculation; the proper valuation date is the discharge hearing date; mortgage life insurance paid directly to the mortgagee pursuant to s.198 Insurance Act is not part of the bankrupt’s estate and does not increase the bankrupt’s equity for estate distribution on these facts; the Court calculated the net equity attributable to the deceased as $9,364.48 and ordered the trustee to remain on title for the deceased’s undivided half-interest but to co…

  • Discharge of bankrupt
  • Mortgage life insurance
  • Trustee powers and registration
  • Issue estoppel
  • Valuation date for equity
  • Section 172 bia discretion
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Property law 2020 BCSC 44

Ruth v. Maple Sunshine Holdings Group Inc.

The court refused to extend an easement by equity or injunction, reduced the registered easement by 0.525 metres, and granted Maple Sunshine time to elect under the phased strata plan.

  • Easement
  • Modification of registered charge (s.35 property law act)
  • Proprietary estoppel/equitable easement
  • Injunctive relief
  • Phased strata plan and extension of election (s.232 strata property act)
  • Unfair election (s.235 strata property act)
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Property law 2015 BCSC 404

BC Retail Partners (Boitanio Mall) Ltd. v. Overwaitea Food Group

Courts restore an erroneously removed restrictive covenant to title, holding that a beneficial owner could not rely on Land Title Act protection to defeat restoration.

  • Restrictive covenant restoration
  • Indefeasibility of title
  • Bona fide purchaser for value
  • Effect of registration/correction
  • Property law act s.35
  • Land title act ss.22,29,34,37
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Contract law 2014 BCSC 823

3555 Gilmore Holdings Ltd. v. Cascade Divide Enterprises, Inc.

The court dismissed TNW’s application to file a third party response, holding the proposed pleading was an abuse of process because it contradicted prior admissions about the lease.

  • Lease enforceability
  • Abuse of process
  • Third party pleadings
  • Doctrine of election
  • Frustration
  • Misrepresentation
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Contract law 2010 BCSC 241

Gulston v. Aldred

The court held that the remediation term was not a condition precedent, found the buyer had affirmed the contract and was estopped from relying on breach, and ordered forfeiture of the $105,000 deposit.

  • Condition precedent
  • Time of the essence
  • Deposit forfeiture
  • Waiver and estoppel
  • Specific performance (sought)
  • Condition-precedent
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Corporate law 2009 BCSC 733

Forest Industrial Relations Limited v. Weyerhaeuser Company Ltd.

The court held FIR was not acting as an unincorporated association, rejected the claimed basis for contingency contributions, and dismissed estoppel. The defendants succeeded on their loan counterclaim.

  • Contingency liability fund
  • Subscription agreements
  • Board resolution
  • Authority of directors
  • Estoppel by silence
  • Counterclaim for loan repayment
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Civil procedure 2009 BCSC 51

Westbank Holdings Ltd. v. Westgate Shopping Centre Ltd.

The court ordered production of settlement documents except one privileged solicitor letter, allowed amendments to pleadings, struck part of the fraud claim against Glassman, and ordered particulars.

  • Production of settlement documents
  • Confidentiality and without prejudice privilege
  • Amendment of pleadings
  • Consolidation and joinder
  • Particulars and pleadings
  • Striking pleadings
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