The British Columbia Court of Appeal dismissed Mr. Wang’s appeals in related family and civil proceedings, upholding credibility findings, trust-based ownership findings, and misappropriation awards.
The court dismissed Shortreed Joint Venture Ltd.’s negligence and fiduciary duty claims against its solicitor and firm, finding no recoverable loss and no tort breach.
The court found fraudulent and negligent misrepresentation, breach of contract, and oppression in Golden Bear Mining’s conduct, and ordered major corporate remedies.
The Court upheld the trial judge’s factual assessment that the plaintiffs failed to prove misappropriation because the forensic accounting relied on unreliable source records and inconsistent overages; the judge properly refused to reopen the trial because the proffered documents were available with reasonable diligence and did not meet the high threshold to prevent substantial injustice; however the trial judge erred in principle on costs by offsetting counterclaim failure against success in the main action rather than assessing how the counterclaim altered trial costs, so costs of defending…