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Patent law 2025 FC 669

Pharmascience Inc. v. Janssen Inc.

The Federal Court refused leave for contested reply expert evidence in a patent damages motion, finding it went beyond proper reply and amounted to case-splitting.

  • Reply expert evidence
  • Case-splitting
  • Admissibility of expert reports
  • First mover advantage analysis
  • Damages for regulatory delay
  • Leave to file expert reports
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Criminal law 2025 BCSC 1878

R. v. Sorensen

Mid-trial ruling allowing the Crown to call rebuttal evidence from Hugh Edmundson on intoxication, how the parties met, and related credibility issues.

  • Rebuttal evidence
  • Credibility
  • Collateral evidence
  • Case-splitting
  • Intoxication
  • Rebuttal-evidence
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Administrative law 2025 FC 82

Racette v. Anderson

Motion to strike granted in a First Nations election challenge for failure to comply with statutory standing and service requirements; late affidavits were inadmissible.

  • Judicial review
  • Service of process
  • Admissibility of evidence
  • Case splitting
  • First nations elections act compliance
  • Judicial-review
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Criminal law 2025 ONCA 18

R. v. S.M.

The trial judge did not err: the defence evidence (the mother’s testimony) introduced a new matter that materially altered the significance of the complainant’s timeline such that the Crown could properly adduce rebuttal photographs; the judge applied the correct standard on credibility/W.(D.) issues as shown by her reasons; and the screenshots met the low authentication threshold and were admissible.

  • Rebuttal evidence
  • Authentication of electronic evidence
  • W.(d.) credibility assessment
  • Case-splitting
  • Browne v. dunn compliance
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Civil procedure 2024 BCSC 1989

Summit Leasing Corporation v. Rutledge

Application for post-judgment document production and an examination order was granted in part: narrowed production was ordered from Donald, and Leslie was ordered to attend for examination.

  • Examination in aid of execution
  • Document production under rule 13-4(11)
  • Spousal compellability under rule 13-4(5)
  • Business corporation record production s.42 bca
  • Case-splitting
  • Discovery limits
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Civil procedure 2024 BCSC 2017

Masjoody v. Motmaen-Far

The court dismissed a self-represented plaintiff’s contempt and Law Society referral application against defence counsel and awarded special costs.

  • Civil contempt
  • Referral to law society
  • Special costs
  • Discovery/list of documents
  • Recusal and case‑splitting
  • Civil-contempt
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Transport law 2024 FC 832

Canada (Louis Dreyfus) v. Canada (National Railway)

The Federal Court allowed Louis Dreyfus Company to file and serve a reply expert report, finding it was responsive, not case-splitting, and not prejudicial.

  • Canada transportation act s.116(5)
  • Admissibility of expert evidence
  • Reply evidence
  • Case splitting
  • Federal courts rules (rules 274(1), 279)
  • Damages assessment
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Patent law 2024 FC 344

Gilead Sciences, Inc. v. Jamp Pharma Corporation

The Federal Court refused to strike the responding expert reports in this patent motion and allowed a brief expert reply, finding no prejudicial case-splitting.

  • Expert evidence
  • Case-splitting
  • Reply evidence
  • Claim construction
  • Infringement
  • Invalidity
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Criminal law 2023 BCCA 198

R. v. Fox

Appeal dismissed in a breach of probation case involving a website the appellant was ordered to make inaccessible. The Court upheld the conviction and rejected fresh evidence.

  • Breach of probation
  • Publication ban
  • Credibility findings
  • Mixed statements
  • Fresh evidence admissibility
  • Vagueness of conditions
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Class actions 2023 FC 27

Thompson v. Canada

Federal Court struck one reply expert affidavit in a proposed class action, admitted another, and granted leave under Rule 52.4 for Mr. Anand.

  • Certification
  • Expert evidence admissibility
  • Reply evidence
  • Case‑splitting
  • Aggregate damages methodology
  • Jurisdiction of administrative tribunals
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