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Trademark law 2025 FC 179

T. Rowe Price Group Inc. v. Glidepath Technologies Inc.

The Federal Court allowed T. Rowe Price Group’s appeal, set aside the Trademarks Opposition Board’s decision, and directed refusal of the LIVE WITH CONFIDENCE application.

  • Likelihood of confusion
  • Degree of resemblance (s.6(5)(e))
  • Section 12(1)(d) registrability
  • Assessment of trademarks in totality
  • Palpable and overriding error
  • Correctness standard
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Torts 2024 BCCA 351

Charters v. Jordan

British Columbia Court of Appeal considered future loss of earning capacity after a bicycle accident, with the majority allowing the appeal and substituting $80,000.

  • Future loss of earning capacity
  • Non-pecuniary damages
  • Rab framework
  • Palpable and overriding error
  • Capital asset approach
  • Valuation of hypothetical future loss
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Criminal law 2024 NSSC 277

R. v. Young

The trial judge misapplied W.(D.) and failed to maintain the required focus on reasonable doubt by effectively treating the case as a credibility contest and rejecting the accused’s evidence on grounds not reasonably supportable by the record (literacy, memory of historical sentence, procedural confusion about variation, and unexplained emphasis on inconsistencies). Those legal errors and factual misappraisals were sufficiently central and unsupported to constitute a miscarriage of justice; appeal allowed, conviction quashed, new trial ordered before a different judge. The Gladue and sentenci…

  • Sexual assault
  • Reasonable doubt
  • W.(d.) credibility direction
  • Credibility assessment
  • Conditional sentence (s.742.1)
  • Gladue report
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Criminal law 2024 BCSC 1864

R. v. Sharma

The Supreme Court of British Columbia dismissed Mr. Sharma’s appeal from a speeding conviction, finding no palpable and overriding error in the trial finding.

  • Speeding
  • Standard of review
  • Palpable and overriding error
  • Findings of fact
  • Radar/laser evidence
  • Standard-of-review
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Taxation 2024 FCA 149

Mann v. Canada

The motion to adduce new evidence was dismissed because the evidence could, with due diligence, have been presented to the Tax Court; the appeal was dismissed because the Federal Court of Appeal found no palpable and overriding error in the Tax Court's factual findings or in its application of law (including use of the net worth method, imputation of income, timeliness of reassessment, and imposition of gross negligence penalties).

  • Reassessment
  • Net worth method
  • Gross negligence penalty
  • Admission of new evidence on appeal
  • Palpable and overriding error
  • Reassessment limitation period
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Criminal law 2024 YKCA 7

R. v. Deuling

The Yukon Court of Appeal allowed Paul Deuling’s appeal from a sexual assault conviction, holding the trial judge erred by assessing Count 4 in isolation.

  • Credibility assessment
  • Directed acquittal vs new trial
  • Application of evidence as a whole
  • Palpable and overriding error
  • Standard of review
  • Credibility-assessment
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Tort 2024 BCCA 208

McGlue v. Girvan

The Court of Appeal allowed the appeal and dismissed the claim, holding the trial judge made palpable and overriding error in finding causation despite adverse credibility findings and no corroborative objective evidence.

  • Causation
  • Credibility of witness
  • Expert evidence
  • Assessment of damages
  • Sufficiency of reasons
  • Palpable and overriding error
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Medical negligence 2024 BCCA 74

Focken v. Miller

Appeal from dismissal of a medical negligence claim arising from Mr. Focken’s death after a deferred embolization. The Court found no reviewable error and dismissed the appeal.

  • Standard of care
  • Causation
  • Expert evidence
  • Palpable and overriding error
  • After‑hours complication risk
  • Medical-negligence
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Torts 2024 BCCA 3

Cox v. Miller

The Court of Appeal dismissed a negligence appeal arising from a recreational soccer slide tackle, holding the trial judge applied the correct standard of care.

  • Standard of care in sport
  • Assumption of risk
  • Recklessness
  • Role of rules of play
  • Palpable and overriding error
  • Standard of review
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Contract 2023 BCCA 262

Kang v. Nijjar

The Court of Appeal dismissed appeals about alleged loan repayment and overpayment claims, finding no palpable factual error and no basis to disturb limitation-related findings.

  • Repayment of loan
  • Statute of limitations
  • Amendment of pleadings
  • Weight of expert evidence
  • Credibility findings
  • Palpable and overriding error
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