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Patients property act 2025 BCSC 1789

Pulez (Re)

The court dismissed an interim application for visitation and telephone contact, holding that the Representation Agreement Act’s statutory objection scheme should be used instead of parens patriae relief.

  • Representation agreement
  • Appointment of committee
  • Visitation rights
  • Statutory objection procedure (s.30)
  • Public guardian and trustee
  • Interim relief
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Patients property act 2025 BCSC 1646

Cameron (Re)

The registrar allowed only $10,000 of the committee’s claimed 2022–23 legal fees under the Patients Property Act and disallowed the balance.

  • Passing of accounts
  • Committee reimbursement
  • Extraordinary expenses
  • Assessment of legal fees
  • Effect of prior court orders
  • Variation of order
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Patients property act 2024 BCSC 454

Cameron (Re)

The court passed a committee’s 2023 accounts under the Patients Property Act, reduced several claimed expenses, denied an emergency fund, and fixed compensation at a lower amount.

  • Passing of accounts
  • Committee compensation
  • Budget for estate draws
  • Allocation of expenses
  • Caregiver expenses
  • Pre-taking of compensation
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Adult guardianship act 2021 BCSC 1243

Kolny (Litigation Guardian of) v. Moghaddam

The court found a valid certificate of incapacity, held the PGT had authority over the property, and ordered the defendant to vacate and stay out.

  • Capacity
  • Certificate of incapacity
  • Statutory property guardian
  • Power of attorney suspension
  • Injunction
  • Mesne profits/occupational rent
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Family law 2016 BCSC 743

Forliti v. Forliti

The court varied a long-running parenting order to give Ms. Davenport final decision-making authority for significant matters, while keeping parenting time unchanged.

  • Parenting time
  • Guardianship
  • Committee appointment
  • Best interests of the child
  • Change of circumstances
  • Parenting coordinator
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Patients property act 2014 BCCA 380

Korol (Re)

The Court of Appeal held that a chambers judge erred by cancelling a CPL and discharging a restraining order on a patient best-interests analysis rather than the Land Title Act.

  • Appointment of committee
  • Certificate of pending litigation (cpl)
  • Restraining order (s.284 lta)
  • Standing
  • Costs (special costs)
  • Fresh and new evidence
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Property law 2013 BCSC 1581

Broad v. Broad

The court held that Douglas Broad lacked capacity to sign a 2009 transfer of the Thrums property to joint title with his sister, so the transfer was voidable and the property was vested in him.

  • Voidable transfer
  • Fiduciary duty
  • Undue influence
  • Resulting trust
  • Transfer of property by incapable adult
  • Vesting/quiet title
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Adult guardianship 2010 BCSC 1127

Lindberg v. Lindberg

The court saved a 2005 representation agreement, dismissed a petition for committeeship, and set aside an ex parte injunction over the respondent’s property.

  • Appointment of committee
  • Continuing effect of representation agreement
  • Setting aside ex parte injunction
  • Criteria for saving representation agreements under s.19 ppa
  • Test for interim injunction
  • Adult-guardianship
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Evidence 2003 BCSC 1716

Egli et al v. Egli et al

The court held that psychiatric opinions in Penticton Mental Health Centre records were not admissible for their truth under Ares v. Venner without Rule 40A compliance.

  • Hearsay
  • Business records exception
  • Expert evidence
  • Rule 40a
  • Admissibility of psychiatric opinions
  • Mental competence
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Trusts 2003 BCSC 1910

Stemkowski v. Atkinson

The court ordered the defendant to hold $25,500 in trust for the plaintiff, with tracing, prejudgment interest, and special costs, after unauthorized transfers from a vulnerable patient’s funds.

  • Voidable transfers under patients property act s.20
  • Tracing and constructive trust
  • Onus to prove gifts
  • Prejudgment interest
  • Special costs
  • Patients-property-act
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