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Wills and estates 2025 BCSC 709

Harder-Anderson Estate v. Anderson Estate

In a WESA s. 60 wills variation dispute, the court ordered the deceased plaintiff’s estate to disclose a statement of assets and liabilities as of death, with supporting documents.

  • Wills variation (wesa s.60)
  • Document disclosure
  • Date-of-death valuation
  • Life estate
  • Proportionality in disclosure
  • Benefit to estate corpus
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Civil procedure 2024 BCSC 1053

Yen v. Ghahramani

The court dismissed an application to compel the Ghahramani parties to serve an affidavit of documents, finding no evidence of omitted relevant documents.

  • Affidavit of documents
  • Document disclosure obligations
  • Possession/control/power of documents
  • Proportionality in disclosure
  • Rules of court interpretation
  • Affidavit-of-documents
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Intellectual property 2024 FC 440

Pharmascience Inc. v. Janssen Inc.

Federal Court dismissed Pharmascience’s Rule 51 appeal and upheld an order compelling production of its financial statements in a section 8 damages action.

  • Patented medicines (notice of compliance) regulations
  • Section 8 damages
  • Discovery and disclosure
  • Proportionality in disclosure
  • Costs
  • Discovery-and-disclosure
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Civil procedure 2024 BCSC 342

Ace Excavating Ltd. v. Bersenev

The court partly granted a document-production application in a confidential-information dispute, narrowing overbroad requests and ordering limited disclosure and discovery answers.

  • Breach of confidentiality
  • Fiduciary duty
  • Civil conspiracy
  • Document disclosure
  • Disgorgement
  • Examination for discovery
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Family law 2024 BCSC 117

H.S.S. v. D.K.G.

Application for retroactive child support disclosure dismissed. The court found the broader December application procedurally improper and the October application disproportionate and insufficiently grounded under Rule 9-1.

  • Retroactive child support
  • Document production
  • Guideline income determination
  • Proportionality in disclosure
  • Enforcement/fmep
  • Child-support
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Property law 2023 NSSC 389

Annapolis Group Inc. v. Halifax (Regional Municipality)

Documents that are not HRM documents (Provincial Panel files) are not compelled from HRM and should be sought from the Province via FOI; HRM must comply with the existing Production Order to produce specified categories (including the Stantec Future Serviced Communities Background Studies) up to the motion cutoff date; limited further productions were ordered (confirmation whether Annapolis lands appear in the Highway 102 West Corridor map and production of growth projections shared with Halifax Water and Halifax Transit 2015-present); exhaustive searches for historic texts/Teams/messages acr…

  • Constructive taking
  • Discovery and production
  • Deliberative process/parliamentary privilege
  • Relevance test for disclosure
  • Proportionality in disclosure
  • Freedom of information
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Corporate law 2023 BCSC 1528

Merit Interior Designs (Duncan) Ltd. v. Kapila

The court dismissed a pre-trial disclosure application for related companies’ financial records, finding the request irrelevant, disproportionate, and prejudicial.

  • Shareholder oppression
  • Discovery/document production
  • Expert valuation methodology
  • Breach of fiduciary duty
  • Wrongful dismissal
  • Proportionality in disclosure
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Civil procedure 2022 BCSC 2214

Brown v. Steffler

The court granted the defendant production of 2009 clinical records about a prior ACL injury, finding a real connection to prognosis and future damages.

  • Production of medical records
  • Pre‑existing injury
  • Proportionality in disclosure
  • Role of expert evidence
  • Costs
  • Medical-records-production
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Contract law 2022 BCSC 440

Vuk (iPhoenix Builder Developers) v. Alto Construction Ltd.

The court largely granted a pre-trial document production application tied to a disputed profit-sharing agreement, finding most requested records relevant to profit calculation.

  • Profit sharing agreement
  • Document production (tier 2)
  • Relevance and peruvian guano test
  • Ccdc5a construction management contracts
  • Bank statements and progress draws
  • Profit and loss statement scrutiny
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Civil procedure 2021 BCSC 1582

Economical Mutual Company and in French, Economical Compagnie Mutuelle D'Assurance v. Teck Metals Ltd.

The court ordered Economical to disclose 419 denied claim files, subject to redaction, because they could help test the reliability of acid-damage screening.

  • Document disclosure
  • Relevance under rule 7-1(11)
  • Proportionality in disclosure
  • Third-party privacy
  • Implied undertaking
  • Reliability of expert testing
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