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Civil procedure 2025 BCSC 2405

Abdul-Ahad v. Challa

The court varied a final order to add pre-judgment interest, denied double costs, and ordered Scale B tariff costs for the successful parties.

  • Pre-judgment interest
  • Slip rule (rule 13-1(17) sccr)
  • Functus officio
  • Offers to settle and double costs (rule 9-1 sccr)
  • Tariff costs scale b
  • Pre-judgment-interest
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Contract law 2025 BCSC 2281

JM Bay Properties Inc. v. Tung Cheng Yuen Buddhist Association

The court held there was no pre-judgment interest, ordered contractual post-judgment interest from March 12, 2025, and limited JM Bay’s costs to half the trial time and one registrar day.

  • Pre-judgment interest
  • Post-judgment interest
  • Party-party costs
  • Assessment of damages
  • Builder's lien (adjourned)
  • Post-judgment-interest
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Insolvency/ccaa 2025 BCSC 2492

Mercy Falls BC Inc. (Re)

Default judgment was granted after Mercy Falls LLC failed to respond, with damages summarily assessed at $4,736,455 and leave to seek further assessment later.

  • Default judgment
  • Summary assessment of damages
  • Mitigation of loss
  • Procedural modification under ccaa s.11
  • Pre- and post-judgment interest
  • Procedural orders
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Mortgage law 2025 BCSC 1576

Vant Geloof v. Grewal

In a foreclosure application, an associate judge held that a mortgage clause raising interest from 6% to 18.99% after maturity offended s. 8 of the Canada Interest Act.

  • Canada interest act s.8
  • Penalty interest
  • Redemption period
  • Order nisi
  • Associate judge jurisdiction
  • Foreclosure
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Contract law 2024 BCSC 1776

Apex Aluminum Extrusions Ltd. v. KD Sales & Service Limited

The court held the contract’s 2% monthly compounded interest clause applied, was not a penalty, and awarded contractual indemnity for reasonable legal fees.

  • Pre‑judgment interest
  • Contractual interest clause
  • Penalty doctrine
  • Contractual indemnity for legal fees
  • Assessment of costs
  • Contractual-interest
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Contract law 2024 BCCA 67

Hardy v. Graham

Court of Appeal allowed the appeal and set aside post-default contractual 60% interest, replacing it with prejudgment interest under the Court Order Interest Act.

  • Contract interpretation
  • Implied terms
  • Pre-judgment interest
  • Interest act s.4
  • Criminal code s.347
  • Standard of review - palpable and overriding error
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Real property 2023 ONCA 681

Greenspan v. Van Clieaf

The promissory note expressly granted JKSD entitlement to a fourth mortgage on default; the application judge erred by relying on post-contract refusal to register and alleged drafting errors to deny an equitable mortgage. The promissory note unambiguously provided 2% for the initial period and 20% per annum thereafter; the 0.02% registration entry was a typographical error. Interest on the third and fourth mortgages accrues only to the date before the closing of the property sale. Appeal allowed to declare JKSD holds an equitable fourth mortgage for $125,000 plus interest; cross-appeal dismi…

  • Equitable mortgage
  • Priority of execution creditors
  • Interpretation of promissory notes
  • Application of interest act s.4
  • Accrual of interest to sale date
  • Marshalling doctrine
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Contract law 2023 BCSC 802

Graham v. Hardy

The court held that contractual fee or interest continued to accrue after December 31, 2019 on unpaid loans, with post-judgment interest governed by the Court Order Interest Act.

  • Loan agreement
  • Personal liability for corporate debts
  • Pre-judgment interest
  • Post-judgment interest
  • Usury/interest rate cap
  • Interpretation of promissory note
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Contract law 2023 BCSC 645

Graham v. Hardy

Summary trial allowed in a loan dispute. The court held Mr. Hardy personally liable, treated the March Note as the governing agreement, and directed recalculation of fees under s. 347 limits.

  • Loan agreements
  • Usury / criminal code s.347
  • Personal liability of corporate officer
  • Interest calculation and remedy
  • Summary judgment suitability
  • Summary-trial
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Contract 2022 BCSC 1780

Bilin v. Sidhu

Post-trial, the court held Tarsem Bilin was the substantially successful party, awarded special costs against Hardip and HARS Ltd., party-and-party costs against Lakhwinder, and ruled the promissory note interest compounded monthly.

  • Costs (special, party-and-party, uplift, contractual)
  • Apportionment of costs
  • Document disclosure and compliance
  • Resulting trust
  • Compound vs simple interest
  • Enforcement/registration of judgments
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