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Property law 2026 ONCA 63

Grape Island Property Owners Association Inc. v. Orillia (City)

The Court of Appeal dismissed an appeal in a proprietary estoppel claim over a City water lot, holding there was no clear assurance or reviewable error.

  • Proprietary estoppel
  • Easement
  • Licence of occupation
  • Municipal policy revocation
  • Costs
  • Proprietary-estoppel
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Property law 2026 BCSC 57

Este v. Vefghi

The court denied conversion of a petition to an action and refused cross-examination, finding the claimed implied easement unnecessary and the record sufficient.

  • Easement
  • Implied easement
  • Easement of necessity
  • Proprietary estoppel
  • Encroachment
  • Conversion to action
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Defamation 2025 BCSC 2244

David v. Song

Assessment of special costs after trial in a neighbour dispute. The registrar awarded the plaintiffs $335,000 inclusive of taxes and disbursements and declined further document production.

  • Special costs
  • Easement
  • Injunctive relief
  • Self-represented litigants
  • Apology act
  • Special-costs
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Property law 2025 BCSC 2206

Therens v. Piche

The court awarded compensation for a driveway encroachment, including survey, appraisal, wall, legal, loss of value, and loss of use costs, and granted an easement on payment.

  • Encroachment
  • Easement
  • Compensation
  • Injurious affection
  • Disturbance damages
  • Survey and title remedies
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Property law 2025 BCSC 2197

Moreau v. Hawkins

The court dismissed a stay application, holding the petition over Easement K should proceed despite a parallel Ministry water licence process.

  • Easement
  • Water licence
  • Stay of proceedings
  • Abuse of process
  • Jurisdiction
  • Easements
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Property law 2025 BCSC 2446

Pinette v. Ellis

The court granted an easement for a longstanding deck and carport encroachment, refused removal, and set compensation at $19,429, with limited leave regarding a hydro meter.

  • Encroachment
  • Easement
  • Compensation
  • Clean hands
  • Balance of convenience
  • Property-law
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Property law 2025 BCSC 1907

Mountain Ridge Road Users Cooperative Association v. Robson-Raspberry Improvement District

The court dismissed MRRUC’s claim to a continuing easement and allowed RRID’s petition to cancel the expired 1999 easement, finding no necessity, estoppel, or implied permanent right.

  • Easement
  • Easement of necessity
  • Wheeldon v burrows easement
  • Proprietary estoppel
  • Implied contractual terms
  • Good faith negotiation
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Property law 2025 BCSC 1698

Horning v. Schroeder-Collen

Court determined post-judgment costs after a summary trial on an easement dispute, rejected the effect of a formal offer, and awarded plaintiffs $5,600 in lump sum costs.

  • Easement
  • Injunction
  • Offer to settle (rule 9-1)
  • Fast track costs (rule 15-1(15))
  • Summary trial (rule 9-7)
  • Offer-to-settle
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Real property law 2025 NSSC 242

Ren v. Grafton Developments Inc.

Conversion granted: the court found the presumption favoring an application did not apply given increased number of witnesses, materially amended pleadings, interpreter requirement, and realistic hearing length exceeding four days; on that basis and considering proportionality under CPR 1.01 and Rule 6, the Respondent satisfied the onus to convert and the proceeding will continue as an Action.

  • Easement
  • Trespass
  • Conversion of proceeding (application to action)
  • Discovery
  • Costs
  • Interpreter services
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Property law 2025 NSSC 255

Acadia Equipment Rentals Limited v. Jaylynn Enterprises Limited

The lease read with the Fogarty Plan and surrounding circumstances evidenced an express grant of a permanent easement over Parcel E1 to benefit 280 North Street (terminating only if the parcel became a public street); alternatively proprietary estoppel established an equitable easement; the defendants' placement and prolonged retention of seacans constituted an actionable nuisance for which special damages and modest punitive damages were awarded; the waste counterclaim failed.

  • Easement
  • License
  • Proprietary estoppel
  • Nuisance
  • Punitive damages
  • Waste
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