Sign in
Canada Source-linked decisions Coverage checked

Canada Case Law

Search judgments by proposition, citation, court, judge or legal topic, then move directly into the source-grounded case analysis.

Courts on this page
2 court collections
Last checked

Canada decisions

Decisions matching the current search

Clear filters
Defamation 2024 BCSC 323

Ortt v. The Owners, Strata Plan NES 3039

Application under the PPPA to dismiss a defamation action was dismissed. The court held the impugned statements concerned a matter of public interest and the claim should proceed.

  • Anti-slapp
  • Protection of public participation act (pppa)
  • Fair comment
  • Qualified privilege
  • Building scheme administration
  • Reputational harm
Read case analysis
Civil procedure 2023 BCSC 2295

Yinghe Investement (Canada) v. CCM Investment Ltd.

The court set aside an ex parte prejudgment garnishing order, finding inadequate disclosure, an arguable set-off in CCM’s favour, and that garnishment was unnecessary.

  • Prejudgment garnishment
  • Ex parte disclosure
  • Liquidated debt
  • Set-off/counterclaim
  • Court order enforcement act s.3 and s.5
  • Full and frank disclosure
Read case analysis
Arbitration 2021 BCSC 1236

Hotel Georgia Development Ltd. v. The Owners, Strata Plan EPS849

The court dismissed HGD’s application to set aside and its leave application, finding the Arbitration Act issues were mixed fact and law and no natural justice breach was shown.

  • Leave to appeal
  • Arbitral error
  • Natural justice
  • Contract interpretation
  • Cost sharing agreements
  • Property tax apportionment
Read case analysis
Torts 2018 BCCA 4

Shen v. Chan

Appeal from dismissal of a strata-water-damage negligence claim under Rule 9-7. The Court of Appeal found no reviewable error and dismissed the appeal.

  • Negligence
  • Causation
  • Duty of care
  • Summary trial (rule 9-7)
  • Hearsay evidence
  • Fresh evidence (palmer)
Read case analysis
Civil procedure 2017 BCSC 1914

Shields v. Strata Plan VIS 5030

The court excluded late-disclosed evidence about brown water in Phases II and III, finding the defendant failed to plead material facts and disclose the evidence fairly.

  • Disclosure obligations
  • Pleadings
  • Hearsay
  • Will-say statements
  • Admissibility
  • Trial fairness
Read case analysis
Evidence 2017 BCSC 1913

Shields v. Strata Plan VIS 5030

Mid-trial voir dire on an expert report was resolved in favour of admissibility, with the court allowing the full report and leaving concerns to cross-examination.

  • Expert evidence admissibility
  • Opinion evidence
  • Disclosure under supreme court civil rules
  • Foundational facts
  • Inductive reasoning in expert opinion
  • Expert-evidence-admissibility
Read case analysis
Civil procedure 2016 BCSC 1340

567 Hornby Apartment Ltd. v. Le Soleil Hospitality Inc.

Registrar Cameron assessed special costs after a long, fraud-driven strata-hotel dispute, allowing global awards for most fees and disbursements with modest reductions.

  • Special costs
  • Assessment of legal fees and disbursements
  • Specific performance
  • Breach of settlement agreement
  • Fraud and perjury
  • Document production and forensic analysis
Read case analysis
Civil procedure 2015 BCSC 149

Devocht v. Hallgren

The court ordered Good People Estates Ltd. to post $100,000 security for costs, but declined to order security against the personal plaintiffs.

  • Security for costs
  • Solicitor negligence
  • Statutory building scheme
  • Strata development
  • Foreclosure
  • Consumer proposal
Read case analysis
Civil procedure 2014 BCCA 397

The Owners, Strata Plan K855 v. Big White Mountain Mart Ltd.

Appeal dismissed from post-trial chambers orders in a strata dispute. The court found some issues academic, upheld a stay of execution, and rejected bias allegations.

  • Specific performance
  • Stay of execution
  • Amendment of pleadings
  • Adding parties
  • Contempt
  • Reasonable apprehension of bias
Read case analysis
Constitutional law 2014 BCSC 1426

R. v. Hugh

The court held that some police observations breached s. 8 and were excised from the ITOs, but valid grounds still supported the warrants and the seized evidence was admissible.

  • Section 8 unreasonable search and seizure
  • Section 24(2) exclusion of evidence
  • Consent to search
  • Third-party consent
  • Strata common property status
  • Duty of full, fair and frank disclosure in itos
Read case analysis

About this LexChat collection

Canada decisions are organised by court, judge, legal area and indexed issue so a practitioner can move from a proposition to a citable authority with the surrounding context intact.