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Constitutional law 2025 FC 1571

Fox v. Canada (Attorney General)

The Federal Court struck Dr. Fox’s claim as an abuse of process because it relitigated issues already rejected by the British Columbia Court of Appeal.

  • Abuse of process
  • Striking pleadings
  • Issue estoppel/res judicata
  • Charter breaches (ss 6,7,11(d))
  • No fly list/secure air travel act
  • Abuse-of-process
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Class actions 2024 BCSC 965

Burke v. Red Barn at Mattick's Ltd.

The court enforced a prior Antunes production order, rejected FOIPPA and public-interest objections to censored video images, and ordered production and costs.

  • Antunes order
  • Production of police records
  • Foippa
  • Right to seclusion
  • Issue estoppel/res judicata
  • Public interest immunity
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Maritime law 2023 FC 1746

Haida Tourism Partnership v. Administrator of the Ship-Source Oil Pollution Fund

The Federal Court struck Haida’s claim against the Ship-Source Oil Pollution Fund Administrator without leave to amend, finding no pleaded cause of action and issue estoppel.

  • Ship-source oil pollution fund
  • Marine liability act sections 101-103
  • Motion to strike/pleading standards
  • Issue estoppel/res judicata
  • Capacity to be sued
  • Costs award
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Copyright 2023 FCA 70

IMS Incorporated v. Toronto Regional Real Estate Board

The Federal Court of Appeal upheld the motion judge’s setting aside of the prothonotary’s order that struck TRREB’s copyright claims without leave to amend because the prothonotary palpably and overridingly erred in treating the works alleged in TRREB’s statement of claim as identical to those in TREB v. Canada; originality is a contextual, mixed fact‑and‑law determination and the prior decision could not be used as a substitute for proof without evidence, but a technical inconsistency in the motion judge’s order (granting leave to amend when leave was unnecessary under the Rules) warranted c…

  • Originality
  • Motion to strike/strike pleadings
  • Judicial notice
  • Issue estoppel/res judicata
  • Leave to amend
  • Standard of review
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Trusts 2021 BCSC 2742

Abby Pharmacy Ltd. v. Ghag

The court dismissed Brendan Ghag’s claims, granted a vexatious litigant order, and awarded special costs after finding repeated meritless and abusive litigation.

  • Sham trust
  • Misappropriation of dividends
  • Vexatious litigant
  • Abuse of process
  • Security for costs
  • Special costs
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Administrative law 2021 FCA 124

Havaris v. Canada (Attorney General)

The appeal is dismissed: the SST-AD correctly found no breach of procedural fairness, correctly declined to re-weigh or overturn the SST-GD's evidentiary findings under the statutory standard, and correctly held that the Superior Court's provincial finding under the SLRA did not bind CPP determinations because the statutory definitions and parties differ; accordingly issue estoppel and abuse of process did not bar the SST-GD from deciding entitlement to the CPP survivor's pension.

  • Procedural fairness
  • Issue estoppel/res judicata
  • Abuse of process
  • Survivor's pension
  • Conjugal relationship determination
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Family law 2021 BCSC 773

K.G. v. British Columbia (Children and Family Development)

Appeal from a CFCSA custody/access order was dismissed as moot after a later FLA consent parenting order superseded the earlier order.

  • Mootness doctrine
  • Withdrawal of child protection proceedings
  • Custody and access under cfcsa
  • Consent parenting orders under fla
  • Issue estoppel/res judicata
  • Admissibility of prior findings
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Constitutional law 2021 FC 75

Hutton v. Canada (Attorney General)

The Federal Court struck two statements of claim as an abuse of process, finding they tried to bypass earlier rulings in related Hutton proceedings.

  • Abuse of process
  • Striking pleadings
  • Leave to amend
  • Issue estoppel/res judicata
  • Charter breaches (ss 7,8,9,12,15)
  • Costs
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Immigration law 2020 FCA 202

Subramaniam v. Canada (Citizenship and Immigration)

The amended s.25(1) of the IRPA constitutes an absolute bar to consideration of H&C applications by persons who are inadmissible under sections 34, 35 or 37; H&C officers have no jurisdiction to re‑determine prior final inadmissibility findings of the Immigration Division even where later jurisprudence changes the legal test; the appellant may instead seek ministerial relief under s.42.1.

  • Humanitarian and compassionate applications
  • Inadmissibility (ss.34-37)
  • People smuggling
  • Issue estoppel/res judicata
  • Standard of review (reasonableness)
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Property 2020 BCSC 641

Dhillon v. Robertson

The court held the 2009 transfer of the Abbotsford property was a bona fide sale, not a trust arrangement or disguised mortgage, and awarded the foreclosure surplus and arrears to the defendants.

  • Constructive trust
  • Buy-back agreement/option to repurchase
  • Disguised mortgage
  • Foreclosure surplus proceeds
  • Use and occupation/rent arrears
  • Issue estoppel/res judicata
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