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Aboriginal law 2024 BCCA 313

Nisg̱a’a Nation v. Malii

Appeal dismissed. The court held the Nisg̱a'a Nation had not shown a statutory or treaty right to be added as a defendant and upheld the case management order.

  • Joinder/adding parties
  • Treaty interpretation
  • Party‑conferring statutory notice (nisg̱a'a final agreement acts)
  • Rule 6-2(7) supreme court civil rules
  • Aboriginal title
  • Case management
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Indigenous law 2024 BCSC 85

Malii v. British Columbia

The court dismissed the Nisga'a Nation's application to be added as a defendant in a Gitanyow Aboriginal title claim, but ordered a later conference on statutory notice and participation rights.

  • Joinder/adding parties
  • Aboriginal title
  • Treaty interpretation
  • Statutory party rights
  • Access to justice/proportionality
  • Joinder-of-parties
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Civil procedure 2023 BCSC 611

Testar Estate v. Leslie

The court dismissed most proposed amendments in a solicitor-negligence case, finding the new fiduciary, fraud, conspiracy, and spoliation claims were not properly pleaded.

  • Amendment of pleadings
  • Joinder/adding parties
  • Fiduciary duty
  • Spoliation
  • Conspiracy
  • Equitable fraud
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Civil procedure 2021 BCSC 2538

Gilbert-Hrimech v. BC Transit

The court dismissed broad discovery and production applications seeking forensic access to transit computer systems, finding them disproportionate and unsupported.

  • Examination for discovery
  • Production of documents
  • Computer forensic examination
  • Joinder/adding parties
  • Allegations of perjury
  • Proportionality in discovery
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Strata property law 2021 BCSC 1752

Rochette v. Bradburn

The court refused to strike or dismiss a strata governance petition based on a release, declined to add proposed respondents, and sent the matter to trial.

  • Fiduciary duty
  • Conflict of interest
  • Release/settlement agreement
  • Summary judgment/summary trial
  • Petition to action conversion
  • Joinder/adding parties
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Corporate law 2021 BCSC 1565

Yang v. 0923879 B.C. Ltd.

The court dismissed an application to add a party and amend pleadings, finding the revised claims remained inconsistent with Foss v. Harbottle and unfair to the defence.

  • Foss v. harbottle rule
  • Derivative action
  • Joinder/adding parties
  • Amendment of pleadings
  • Unjust enrichment
  • Conversion
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Civil procedure 2020 BCSC 1234

Breese v. Amaro

Court granted a written-submissions application to add Justin Edward Groshok as a defendant, amend the notice of civil claim, and ordered each party to bear its own costs.

  • Joinder/adding parties
  • Amendment of pleadings
  • Limitation periods
  • Costs
  • Joinder
  • Amendment-of-pleadings
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Tort 2020 BCSC 936

Forsythe v. Columbia Basin Development Corp.

The court granted an application to add parties, replace a defendant by corporate amalgamation, move the proceeding to Vancouver, and permit amendment of the claim.

  • Negligence
  • Nuisance
  • Joinder/adding parties
  • Amendment of pleadings
  • Registry transfer
  • Joinder-of-parties
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Contract 2019 BCSC 830

Boake v. Blair

Application partly granted to correct misnomers and add parties in an NHW indemnity and subrogation dispute involving structural defects in a house.

  • Subrogation
  • Indemnity
  • Misnomer
  • Joinder/adding parties
  • Limitation periods
  • Home warranty insurance
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Civil procedure 2018 NSSC 163

Wamboldt Estate v. Wamboldt

Ontario law (Substitute Decisions Act) governs the validity of the Continuing Power of Attorney; however, the substantive law governing the tort and fiduciary accounting claims and the limitation periods is Nova Scotia law. The original action was timely. The proposed amendments as to the present defendant are not statute barred because the claim was not discoverable until March 2017 and, alternatively, fraudulent/wilful concealment and s.22 permit the amendments; the proposed addition of Kathleen Hartley is barred by the limitation period and cannot be added because she did not have sufficie…

  • Continuing power of attorney validity
  • Choice of law
  • Statute of limitations
  • Fraudulent/wilful concealment
  • Discoverability
  • Joinder/adding parties
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