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Civil procedure 2025 BCSC 2122

Gill v. Taaj Jewellers Ltd.

The court dismissed a request for a preservation order over sale proceeds from a Surrey property, finding no evidentiary basis for a proprietary claim to the property or a specific fund.

  • Preservation order
  • Impound order
  • Rule 10-1
  • Constructive trust
  • Tracing
  • Mareva injunction
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Family law 2022 BCSC 620

Galac v. Farnsworth

The court granted a divorce and resolved family property, support, and occupation rent issues, including exclusion of an inheritance, share valuation, and child support orders.

  • Equal division of family property
  • Excluded property (inheritance)
  • Valuation of assets (share portfolio)
  • Retroactive and prospective child support
  • S.7 extraordinary expenses
  • Occupation rent
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Family law 2020 BCSC 3

C.M. v. N.L.

Family law trial on parenting, child protection, support, and property division. The court ended supervised access, ordered joint guardianship, and rejected the respondent’s late expert evidence.

  • Guardianship and parenting arrangements
  • Supervised access
  • Section 211 forensic assessment
  • Excluded property and tracing
  • Valuation of business (dental practice)
  • Joint expert rule and expert admissibility
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Property law 2016 BCSC 1496

Liao v. Ho

The court cancelled three certificates of pending litigation over Richmond properties, finding no estate or interest in land and no evidentiary basis for tracing.

  • Certificate of pending litigation
  • Cancellation of registration
  • Assignment of claims
  • Tracing of funds
  • Fraud and misrepresentation
  • Costs
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Property law 2015 BCSC 12

Bostan v. Pita King Mediterranean Food Ltd.

The court dismissed constructive trust claims over several properties and struck the related CPLs, finding no evidence that restaurant funds were traced to those assets.

  • Constructive trust
  • Certificate of pending litigation
  • Unjust enrichment
  • Summary judgment
  • Land title act ss.215/256/257
  • Tracing
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Corporate law 2014 BCSC 1868

Nature-Control Technologies Inc. v. Li

The court found Nature-Control’s business did not include Li’s bleaching products, but Li and SouthMountain earned secret profits on dealings with Nature-Control.

  • Corporate opportunity doctrine
  • Knowing assistance
  • Knowing receipt
  • Proprietary tracing
  • Assignment of patents
  • Disgorgement of secret profits
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Civil procedure 2014 BCSC 1360

Chang v. Siew

The court held the defendants were in substantial compliance with disclosure orders, declined to strike their pleadings, and awarded costs to the defendants.

  • Disclosure compliance
  • Affidavit of documents
  • Judicial management
  • Dismissal/default relief
  • Tracing of funds
  • Costs award
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Banking law 2011 BCSC 458

Royal Bank of Canada v. B.M.P. Global Distribution Inc.

RBC obtained summary-trial judgment for repayment of the unrecovered counterfeit-cheque funds. The court also dismissed the defendants’ counterclaim and third party notice.

  • Mistake of fact
  • Change of position defence
  • Tracing of funds
  • Indemnity agreements
  • Issue estoppel
  • Accounting
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Civil procedure 2009 BCSC 368

Siemens Contracting Ltd. v. Norex Civil Contractors Inc.

The court granted an extension for an expert report and summary trial timetable, but imposed strict deadlines, kept $32,000 in trust, released the balance to Tracy Reutlinger, and awarded costs to the defendants.

  • Extension of time
  • Third party disclosure
  • Summary trial
  • Certificate of pending litigation
  • Costs
  • Extension-of-time
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Wills and estates 2007 BCSC 1740

Jung v. HSBC Trust Company (Canada)

The court upheld Hubert Lee’s 1985 will, revoked probate of the earlier 1977 will, ordered tracing into Horace’s estate, and rejected limitation and laches defences.

  • Will validity
  • Execution formalities
  • Revocation of probate
  • Dependent relative revocation
  • Tracing of assets
  • Limitation periods and discovery
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