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Family law 2024 BCSC 1744

Liu v. Zhao

The court recognized Chinese custody and visitation orders, declined to assume jurisdiction over parenting issues, and refused to order the child’s return to China.

  • Custody
  • Visitation
  • Wrongful removal
  • Recognition of extraprovincial orders
  • Jurisdiction
  • Enforcement
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Civil procedure 2024 BCCA 286

Pangaea Resources Limited v. Harder

La Cour d’appel a rejeté l’appel d’une ordonnance de type Mareva visant à geler et divulguer certains actifs, jugeant qu’une forte preuve prima facie et un risque de dissipation existaient.

  • Mareva injunction
  • Freezing order
  • Disclosure order
  • Prima facie case
  • Asset dissipation
  • Non-party injunctions
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Civil procedure 2024 BCSC 1456

United States Securities and Exchange Commission v. Sharp

The court dismissed Mr. Sharp’s stay application and granted a post-judgment Mareva injunction, including a sealed asset list with strict disclosure limits.

  • Mareva injunction
  • Asset preservation
  • Stay of civil proceedings
  • Use and derivative use immunity
  • Charter ss.7 and 13
  • Enforcement of foreign judgments
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Securities law 2023 BCSC 425

United States Securities and Exchange Commission v. Sharp

The court granted a Mareva injunction for the SEC against five defendants in support of a U.S. securities action, rejecting jurisdictional and Charter objections.

  • Mareva injunction
  • Freezing orders
  • Asset preservation
  • Foreign proceedings
  • Jurisdiction to grant ancillary relief
  • Self-incrimination
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Family law 2022 ONCA 161

Krause v. Bougrine

Section 21 of the ISO Act empowers an Ontario court to treat a foreign support order whose Ontario registration was set aside as if it were a support application and to make a new Ontario support order against a payor resident in Ontario; Cheng v. Liu is distinguishable and does not deprive the province of authority to provide the statutory remedy under the ISO Act, so the Ontario Court of Justice had jurisdiction and its order was restored.

  • Child support
  • Interjurisdictional support orders act s.21
  • Recognition and enforcement of foreign support orders
  • Jurisdictional competence
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Bankruptcy and insolvency 2020 BCSC 224

Nishiyama (Re)

The court ordered document production and examinations in a cross-border bankruptcy matter involving Masahiko Nishiyama, his common-law spouse, and a Japanese trustee.

  • Document disclosure
  • Examinations under oath
  • Recognition of foreign proceedings
  • Jurisdiction to order examinations abroad
  • Compliance with receivership orders
  • Bankruptcy-and-insolvency
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Family law 2017 BCSC 1010

Devathasan v. Devathasan

The court upheld a protection order and most of a Mareva injunction, narrowed disclosure to three years, and granted interim child and spousal support plus interim funding.

  • Protection order
  • Mareva injunction
  • Interim spousal support
  • Interim child support
  • Interim distribution of assets
  • Imputation of income
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Civil procedure 2016 BCSC 1086

1254859 Ontario Inc. v. Golden Anvil S.A. de C.V.

The court granted a preservation order against Golden Anvil over 1 million Gainey shares, but dismissed the application against Royal Mines and Marco Antonio Rincon Valdes.

  • Preservation order
  • Interlocutory injunction
  • Specific performance
  • Constructive trust
  • Unjust enrichment
  • Escrow shares
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Civil procedure 2016 BCSC 1103

Equustek Solutions Inc. v. Jack

The court found a strong prima facie case against Colin Marsh but refused a worldwide Mareva injunction because the balance of convenience did not favor Equustek.

  • Mareva injunction
  • Anton piller order
  • Trade secrets
  • Conspiracy
  • Jurisdictional competence
  • Implied undertaking
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Family law 2014 BCSC 1642

K.B. v. A.R.

The court rejected abuse allegations, ended the joint parenting arrangement, and allocated primary parental responsibilities to the claimant while preserving limited parenting time for the respondent.

  • Guardianship allocation under family law act
  • Parenting time allocation
  • Division of family property (including foreign realty)
  • Spousal and child support (imputation of income)
  • Contempt for non-compliance with sale order
  • Domesticating foreign orders and qdro enforcement
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