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Defamation 2025 BCSC 2455

Sandher Fruit Packers Ltd. v. MacAskill

The court struck the defendant’s response for repeated non-compliance, abuse of process, and breach of an injunction, and entered default judgment for the plaintiffs.

  • Striking pleadings
  • Default judgment
  • Implied undertaking of confidentiality
  • Protection of public participation act (pppa)
  • Special costs
  • Discovery non-compliance
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Human rights 2025 CHRT 61

Richards vs Correctional Service Canada

The Tribunal found Mr. Richards breached the implied undertaking rule by sharing a disclosed exhibit on social media and ordered remedial steps plus sealing of motion screenshots.

  • Implied undertaking of confidentiality
  • Confidentiality orders
  • Disclosure obligations
  • Abuse of process
  • Sealing exhibits
  • Implied-undertaking
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Human rights 2025 CHRT 25

Goes v. Salt River First Nation

The Tribunal allowed some redactions in medical records, ordered disclosure of others as arguably relevant, restricted access during case management, and dismissed a confidentiality request as premature.

  • Disclosure of medical records
  • Confidentiality orders
  • Relevance of evidence
  • Implied undertaking of confidentiality
  • Redaction of documents
  • Disclosure-of-medical-records
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Evidence 2024 BCSC 2060

Malii v. British Columbia

The Province sought declarations about waiver of litigation privilege and the implied undertaking for expert reports and other litigation materials, but the court adjourned the application generally.

  • Litigation privilege waiver
  • Implied undertaking of confidentiality
  • Disclosure to non-parties
  • Expert reports
  • Declaratory relief
  • Use of discovery materials
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Administrative law 2024 BCSC 2628

Kelowna Mountain Limited Partnership v. Central Okanagan (Regional District)

The court granted limited relief from the implied undertaking of confidentiality, allowing use of a 2014 memo in a judicial review, but refused broader document relief.

  • Implied undertaking of confidentiality
  • Judicial review record
  • Discovery and disclosure
  • Validity of bylaws under local government act
  • Admissibility of non-record evidence
  • Procedural fairness and bad faith
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Corporations law 2024 BCSC 1990

Norseyl Properties Ltd. v. Mirage Trading Corporation

The court relaxed the implied undertaking and allowed discovery evidence from the Norseyl action to be used in a related oppression proceeding.

  • Oppression remedy
  • Trust agreement enforceability
  • Implied undertaking of confidentiality
  • Examinations for discovery
  • Abuse of process
  • Implied-undertaking
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Contract law 2024 BCSC 1057

Canada Life Assurance Company v. Siddoo A.K. Investments Ltd.

The court dismissed Canada Life’s document production application, finding the demand procedurally defective, largely irrelevant to the pleaded issues, and tainted by an apparent ulterior purpose.

  • Frustration of contract
  • Breach of lease
  • Document production
  • Implied undertaking of confidentiality
  • Abuse of process
  • Fraudulent conveyance and preference
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Human rights law 2022 CHRT 36

Woodgate et al. v. RCMP

The Tribunal granted the Commission's motion with modifications: it ordered specified Commission and Complainant document lists sealed from public access; required the Commission and Complainants to file amended document lists redacting documents bearing BCSC Bates numbering beginning with 'F' unless those documents appear on the exhibit list provided or are otherwise shown to be public exhibits; ordered the Commission and Complainants (and RCMP where applicable) to seal or destroy redacted materials; and ordered the RCMP to disclose within 60 days all arguably relevant documents in its posse…

  • Implied undertaking of confidentiality
  • Document disclosure
  • Sealing/redaction orders
  • Interested person status
  • Remedies for breach of discovery obligations
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Defamation 2022 BCSC 993

Robinson v. Gallamore

In a defamation action, the Court partially granted document production limited to complaints about the officer that specifically mention defamation, slander, or libel.

  • Production of documents
  • Leave to use documents
  • Similar fact evidence
  • Implied undertaking of confidentiality
  • Aggravated damages
  • Vicarious liability
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Administrative law 2022 BCSC 361

Engineers and Geoscientists Act, R.S.B.C. 1996, c. 116 (Re)

The court refused EGBC leave to use discovery materials to investigate engineers, finding the implied undertaking of confidentiality outweighed the regulator’s public interest.

  • Implied undertaking of confidentiality
  • Professional discipline and investigation
  • Discovery use limitation
  • Public interest balancing
  • Statutory interpretation (ega v pga)
  • Implied-undertaking
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