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Civil procedure 2025 BCCA 431

Miller v. RBC Dominion Securities Inc.

The Court of Appeal dismissed appeals challenging a costs stay and a strike order, holding the new action was an abuse of process and not a fraud attack on the earlier judgment.

  • Res judicata
  • Abuse of process
  • Fraud vitiating judgment
  • Stay of proceedings
  • Costs
  • Registration of securities representatives
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Administrative law 2025 BCCA 423

Cole v. The Law Society of British Columbia

The Court of Appeal dismissed Mr. Cole’s appeal, holding the Law Society review board did not fetter its discretion or misapply the sanctioning principles.

  • Sanctions
  • Fettering discretion
  • Standard of review
  • Tribunal review
  • Professional misconduct
  • Professional-discipline
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Administrative law 2025 ONCA 751

Binance Holdings Limited v. Ontario Securities Commission

The Ontario Court of Appeal held that the Binance summons was overbroad and an unreasonable seizure, and set it aside, while rejecting s. 144(1) jurisdiction arguments.

  • Summons
  • Production order
  • Section 8 charter (unreasonable search and seizure)
  • Section 144(1) jurisdiction
  • Section 13 of the securities act
  • Overbreadth
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Constitutional law 2025 BCCA 146

Lamarche v. British Columbia (Securities Commission)

The Court of Appeal stayed constitutional and Privacy Act claims arising from a Securities Commission investigation, but set aside the strike of the Privacy Act claim.

  • Solicitor-client privilege
  • Charter ss.7 and 8
  • Section 144 securities act
  • Exhaustion of administrative remedies
  • Stay and striking of pleadings
  • Privacy act damages
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Corporate law 2025 BCSC 739

Lionsgate Studios Corp. (Re)

The court denied CPPIB’s request to adjourn a fairness hearing for a proposed arrangement involving Lionsgate, finding delay would prejudice the company and that counsel availability alone was insufficient.

  • Plan of arrangement
  • Adjournment of hearing
  • Prejudice balancing
  • Costs
  • Cross-border creditor litigation
  • Plan-of-arrangement
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Civil procedure 2025 BCSC 167

Axion Ventures Inc. v. Bonner

The court refused to dismiss the action for alleged spoliation of emails and G Suite data, finding the evidence insufficient and reserving the issue for trial.

  • Spoliation of evidence
  • Preservation of electronic documents
  • Dismissal for spoliation
  • Fiduciary duty
  • Oppression proceedings
  • Remedies for spoliation
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Bankruptcy and insolvency 2024 SCC 32

Scott v. Golden Oaks Enterprises Inc.

The Supreme Court held that the trustee’s recovery actions were not time-barred, rejected equitable set-off, and upheld illegality and preference findings.

  • Corporate attribution
  • One-person corporations
  • Unjust enrichment
  • Equitable set-off
  • Illegality of contracts
  • Preferential payments
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Insurance 2024 ONCA 579

Furtado v. Lloyd’s Underwriters

The Court held the Suspension Clause only suspended notice while legal prohibition remained; once the statutory prohibition permitted disclosure the insured had to give notice of the circumstance during the policy period (as extended by the Suspension Clause) and failure to do so amounted to non-compliance with a condition precedent to coverage, so relief from forfeiture was not available and the Claims were not covered.

  • Directors and officers liability insurance
  • Claims-made policy
  • Notice requirements
  • Relief from forfeiture
  • Suspension clause
  • Condition precedent to coverage
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Class actions 2024 BCSC 1185

Mackenzie v. Chartwell Asset Management Inc.

Court adjourned a proposed class action certification hearing, finding most pleading and common-issue allegations too vague, but allowing time to amend focused claims.

  • Certification
  • Pleadings and particularity
  • Negligence
  • Negligent misrepresentation
  • Fraudulent misrepresentation
  • Breach of contract
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Class actions 2023 ONCA 840

Boal v. International Capital Management Inc.

The court allowed the appeal: the pleading, read as a whole and assuming its facts, discloses a cause of action for breach of a class‑wide fiduciary duty because professional rules are one factor among pleaded facts (vulnerability, trust, reliance, advisor discretion, control of information, undisclosed conflicts and profit, and MFDA admissions); it is not plain and obvious the claim has no reasonable prospect of success; matter remitted to Superior Court for fresh determination of common issues and preferable procedure and certifiability of knowing assistance/receipt; costs awarded to appell…

  • Breach of fiduciary duty
  • Certification — cause of action
  • Knowing assistance
  • Knowing receipt
  • Professional codes of conduct
  • Regulatory discipline (mfda)
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