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Criminal law 2025 BCCA 63

Bryfogle (Re)

Appeal quashed for want of jurisdiction. The Court of Appeal held the Criminal Code provides no appeal from an order refusing leave under s. 577(b).

  • Section 577(b) criminal code
  • Section 685(1) criminal code
  • Direct indictment
  • Jurisdictional limits on appeal
  • Mandamus
  • Vexatious litigant leave requirement
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Residential tenancy 2025 BCSC 415

Lover-Peace v. British Columbia (Residential Tenancy Branch)

The court granted a one-month stay of a Residential Tenancy Branch eviction order and directed related applications to be heard together on March 14, 2025.

  • Stay of eviction order
  • Judicial review
  • Variation of vexatious litigant order
  • Without-notice applications
  • Service and notice requirements
  • Residential-tenancy
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Civil procedure 2023 BCCA 435

Dick v. Vancouver City Savings Credit Union

The Court of Appeal refused leave to appeal in a vexatious litigant matter, finding the proposed appeal had no prospect of success and was wholly without merit.

  • Leave to appeal
  • Res judicata
  • Finality of litigation
  • Rule 23-6
  • Merits assessment
  • Leave-to-appeal
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Civil procedure 2017 BCCA 91

R.D. Backhoe Services Inc. v. Graham Construction and Engineering Inc.

The Court of Appeal dismissed an extension application, treated the appeal as abandoned for failure to post security, and declared Mr. Dick and related companies vexatious litigants.

  • Security for costs
  • Extension of time
  • Abandonment of appeal
  • Vexatious litigant order
  • Res judicata
  • Limitation act
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Civil procedure 2015 BCSC 2413

Rassaf v. Borden Ladner Gervais

The court struck a claim against defence counsel, held no duty was owed to the plaintiff, granted a restraining order under s. 18, and awarded special costs.

  • Striking pleadings
  • Duty of care of opposing counsel
  • Fiduciary duty
  • Section 18 injunction (supreme court act)
  • Rule 9-5 striking
  • Rule 9-7 dismissal
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Civil procedure 2013 BCCA 71

Booty v. Hutton

La Corte desestimó solicitudes ex parte de indigencia y de permiso para continuar, al concluir que los asuntos estaban resueltos definitivamente y no había mérito para reabrirlos.

  • Indigent status
  • Leave to appeal
  • Vexatious litigant
  • Res judicata/finality
  • Abuse of process
  • Civil-procedure
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Civil procedure 2012 BCCA 398

Pearlman v. I.C.B.C.

Court of Appeal dismissed Mr. Pearlman’s applications to vary two single-justice orders and refused a further Houwelling restriction on filings.

  • Vexatious litigant order
  • Houwelling order
  • Leave to appeal
  • Taxation of costs
  • Rule 9-5(1)(d)
  • Indigency and security for costs
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Civil procedure 2012 BCSC 1179

Pearlman v. Vancouver Police Department and Constable Ben Stevens #2177

The court held that a default judgment application was part of an existing action and did not need leave under a prior vexatious litigant order, but denied indigent status.

  • Default judgment
  • Indigent status applications
  • Leave to commence proceedings
  • Interpretation of vexatious litigant orders
  • Default-judgment
  • Vexatious-litigant-order
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