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Estate law 2025 BCSC 2173

Gowans Estate (Re)

A passing of accounts case in which several claimed estate disbursements were disallowed and the executor’s remuneration was reduced to $15,000, or 1.5% of the gross estate.

  • Executor's remuneration
  • Disbursements and expenses
  • Speculation and vacancy tax
  • Pet care expenses
  • Supporting documentation
  • Passing of accounts
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Civil 2025 ONCA 702

Lu v. Wang

The Court of Appeal dismissed the appeal, refusing to consider new arguments raised for the first time on appeal about an HST gross negligence penalty.

  • Hst gross negligence penalty
  • Inclusion of penalty in hst assessment
  • Raising new issues on appeal
  • Costs
  • New-issues-on-appeal
  • Hst
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Corporate law 2025 BCSC 1968

Au v. Sunrise Engineering & Manufacturing Inc.

The court found oppressive conduct in the removal of a shareholder-director-employee before the parties’ roles were clarified, and ordered a buyout at fair market value without a minority discount.

  • Oppression remedy
  • Fair market value of shares
  • Minority discount
  • Shareholder loans
  • Directors' business judgment
  • Shareholder-oppression
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Contract law 2025 BCSC 1888

Saunders v. Ciammaichella

The court granted a limited interlocutory injunction on a dental-practice dispute, restraining work at ADC and limiting use of the joint account pending trial.

  • Breach of contract
  • Good faith and honest performance
  • Fiduciary duty
  • Interlocutory injunction
  • Goodwill
  • Joint bank account withdrawals
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Corporate law 2025 BCSC 1864

Smartt Inc. v. Siphon Enterprises Corp.

The court found four related BC actions arose from the same factual matrix and ordered one action converted from a petition, one action consolidated, and all three tried together.

  • Consolidation of proceedings
  • Conversion of petition to action
  • Constructive dismissal
  • Oppression remedy
  • Fiduciary breach
  • Compelled examinations for discovery
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Trusts and equitable remedies 2025 BCCA 136

Chung v. Chung

The Court of Appeal set aside a term making a constructive trust subject to an accounting and awarded $100,000 in punitive damages for fiduciary misconduct.

  • Constructive trust
  • Misappropriation of funds
  • Punitive damages
  • Settlement agreement interpretation
  • Tracing
  • No-profit/no-conflict rules
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Civil procedure 2025 BCSC 250

Hayward v. Baldev S. Ghag Law Corporation

The court dismissed a motion to compel disclosure of a settlement amount, holding that settlement privilege was not displaced by concerns about overcompensation or mitigation.

  • Settlement privilege
  • Overcompensation
  • Mitigation of damages
  • Production/disclosure
  • Loss of chance
  • Causation
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Trusts and estates 2024 BCSC 2118

Weisstock v. Weisstock

The court held a trust removal clause was not uncertain, but it was contrary to public policy. The trustee’s removal of a beneficiary was not a breach of duty.

  • Beneficiary removal
  • Trustee removal
  • Interpretation of trust deed
  • In terrorem clause
  • Business corporations act s.324
  • Uncertainty in trust clauses
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Evidence 2024 BCSC 1610

Shortreed Joint Venture Ltd. v. Guvi

The court excluded an expert report on solicitor standard of care because it failed Rule 11-6 requirements, went beyond the expert’s expertise, and argued the case.

  • Expert evidence admissibility
  • Gatekeeping function
  • Rule 11-6 compliance
  • Standard of care for solicitors
  • Law society / clebc materials
  • Ultimate issue doctrine
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Civil procedure 2024 NSCA 77

Wright v. Ratcliffe

The June 26, 2019 text message was undisputed and contained sufficient knowledge of material facts to permit a plausible inference of liability; therefore Wright discovered his claim on that date, the two‑year limitation had expired when the action was commenced, and the motion judge correctly granted summary judgment under Rule 13.04.

  • Discoverability
  • Summary judgment under rule 13.04
  • Limitations defence
  • Oppression claim
  • Estoppel (raised and dismissed)
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