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Contract law 2025 BCSC 2172

Lamb v. Sun Life Assurance Company of Canada

Cour suprême de la C.-B. autorise en partie Sun Life à modifier sa contre-demande et ordonne une divulgation documentaire ciblée, tout en rejetant la reprise générale des dommages pécuniaires.

  • Amendment of pleadings
  • Document production/disclosure
  • Privilege (solicitor-client and litigation)
  • Civil conspiracy
  • Disgorgement
  • Punitive damages
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Family law 2025 BCSC 2109

Arora v. Malik

The court refused to vary the parties’ consent support order beyond the anticipated 2025 review, upheld attributed incomes, denied arrears cancellation, and ordered enforcement and disclosure.

  • Variation of consent order
  • Material change of circumstances
  • Guideline income attribution
  • Arrears cancellation
  • Security for support (charging order)
  • Document production/disclosure
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Insurance law 2024 BCSC 2123

Chawla v. Gebert

The court granted a time-limited stay of execution pending an s. 83 hearing, on condition that the applicants pay $100,000 and the plaintiff produce ordered records.

  • Section 83 insurance (vehicle) act
  • Part 7 benefits
  • Stay of execution
  • Document production/disclosure
  • Deemed release and set-off
  • Post-judgment security
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Civil forfeiture 2024 BCSC 562

British Columbia (Director of Civil Forfeiture) v. Liu

The court dismissed the defendants’ document-production application in a civil forfeiture case, holding the Director lacked possession, power or control over DPD, RCMP and PPSC records.

  • Document production/disclosure
  • Information sharing agreements
  • Statutory interpretation of entitlement to information
  • Possession/power/control
  • Costs
  • Civil-forfeiture
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Contract law 2020 BCCA 198

Ladner Reach Properties Ltd. v. Cameron

The Court of Appeal set aside an order striking counterclaim paragraphs tied to a BPCPA s. 172 claim and remitted most document-production issues to the trial court.

  • Striking pleadings
  • Document production/disclosure
  • Business practices and consumer protection act s.171 and s.172
  • Similar fact evidence
  • Punitive and exemplary damages
  • Injunctive and declaratory relief
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Civil procedure 2019 BCSC 769

Cunningham v. Mehl

The court ordered a Form 22 list of documents but adjourned generally a broader production request for criminal trial materials, leaving the issue to be reset later.

  • Document production/disclosure
  • Solicitor-client privilege
  • Crown disclosure and police file production
  • Trial exhibits and transcripts
  • Risk of prejudice to retrial
  • Proportionality in disclosure
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Human rights law 2019 CHRT 14

T.P. v. Canadian Armed Forces

The Tribunal found the Draft DAOD documents are arguably relevant to the CAF’s pleaded BFOR defence and to potential remedies; the public interest in disclosure for a fair adjudication outweighs the CAF’s generalized class claim of public interest immunity; production is ordered subject only to valid claims of solicitor‑client privilege and the CAF must particularize such claims by delivering updated privilege lists.

  • Disability discrimination
  • Accommodation
  • Bona fide occupational requirement (bfor)
  • Document production/disclosure
  • Solicitor‑client privilege
  • Public interest/public interest immunity
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Family law 2015 BCSC 826

Warde v. Slatter

The court settled the form of order in a family law proceeding, holding the breach conclusions should be stated as findings and that document production rested on Rule 9-1.

  • Breach of court order
  • Declaratory relief vs findings
  • Document production/disclosure
  • Family property
  • Costs
  • Family-law
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Class actions 2013 BCSC 1888

Fontaine v. The Attorney General of Canada

Court held the Monitor’s review was limited by the Consent Order, but ordered production of certain statements, retainer agreements, third-party loan records and payment documents.

  • Independent assessment process (iap) review
  • Document production/disclosure
  • Third-party loans and assignments
  • Retainer agreements
  • Monitor powers
  • Settlement implementation
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Human rights 2012 CHRT 26

Hughes v. Transport Canada

The Tribunal held that the documents sought by the complainant and by the Commission are arguably relevant and must be produced subject to redaction of personal identifiers; the respondent must either produce non-privileged documents or file a detailed affidavit within 15 days stating why each requested document does not exist or why privilege applies; failure to file the affidavit results in an order to produce the documents. Selection committee materials are not an adjudicative forum that precludes disclosure; Privacy Act considerations do not bar production if confidentiality is protected…

  • Disability discrimination
  • Refusal to hire (s.7)
  • Retaliation/reprisal (s.14.1)
  • Document production/disclosure
  • Solicitor-client privilege
  • Privacy act conflict
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