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Civil procedure 2024 BCCA 286

Pangaea Resources Limited v. Harder

La Cour d’appel a rejeté l’appel d’une ordonnance de type Mareva visant à geler et divulguer certains actifs, jugeant qu’une forte preuve prima facie et un risque de dissipation existaient.

  • Mareva injunction
  • Freezing order
  • Disclosure order
  • Prima facie case
  • Asset dissipation
  • Non-party injunctions
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Administrative law 2023 FC 718

Fick v. Canada (Human Rights Commission)

The Federal Court held the Tribunal’s dismissal of Warren Fick’s CHRA complaint was reasonable and dismissed his judicial review, with no costs.

  • Discrimination
  • Disability discrimination
  • Employment relationship
  • Jurisdiction of tribunal
  • Standard of review (reasonableness)
  • Prima facie case
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Intellectual property 2023 FC 413

Sheppard v. C S Design Inc.

The Federal Court dismissed an interim injunction motion in a copyright dispute over luminous seesaws, finding no clear irreparable harm and a balance of convenience favoring the defendants.

  • Interim injunction
  • Moral rights
  • Copyright ownership
  • Co-ownership
  • Irreparable harm
  • Balance of convenience
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Injunctions 2022 NSSC 214

Brae Transport Limited v. Logan

The interim Mareva injunction was discharged because Brae failed to establish a strong prima facie case of fraud or breach of fiduciary duty for the bulk of its claims and did not demonstrate that continuation of the asset-freeze was justified given the evidence and credibility findings.

  • Mareva injunction
  • Prima facie case
  • Asset freezing
  • Balance of convenience
  • Dissipation of assets
  • Credibility assessment
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Civil procedure 2021 BCSC 774

RBD Victoria Homes Inc. v. 0717227 B.C. Ltd.

The court granted, in part, an ex parte Mareva injunction in a breach of contract claim, restraining disposal of specified real property pending an inter partes hearing.

  • Mareva injunction
  • Breach of contract
  • Asset dissipation
  • Balance of convenience
  • Prima facie case
  • Mareva-injunction
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Arbitration 2021 BCSC 291

Enrroxs Energy and Mining Group v. Saddad

The court refused to discharge or stay a freezing order enforcing a Swiss arbitral award, finding a strong prima facie case and a real risk of dissipation.

  • Mareva injunction
  • Freezing order
  • Recognition and enforcement of foreign arbitral awards
  • Balance of convenience
  • Prima facie case
  • Stay of proceedings
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Civil procedure 2021 NSSC 29

Smith v. Barrett

The court granted the Mareva injunction because the applicant demonstrated a strong prima facie case supported by a forensic audit and criminal charges, established a genuine and serious risk of asset dissipation based on the Bateman's history and business practices, and showed the balance of convenience favored preservation of the Kentville property to prevent irreparable harm to the plaintiff's ability to satisfy a future judgment.

  • Mareva injunction
  • Asset preservation
  • Prima facie case
  • Dissipation of assets
  • Balance of convenience
  • Interaction of civil and criminal proceedings
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Civil procedure 2020 BCSC 885

Fernandes v. Legacy Financial Systems, Inc.

Ex parte Mareva injunction granted in limited form over promissory note claims, with conditions, asset limits, and a one-month return date.

  • Mareva injunction
  • Asset preservation order
  • Promissory notes
  • Prima facie case
  • Balance of convenience
  • Undertaking as to damages
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Criminal 2020 ONCA 331

United States v. Akinbobola

The extradition judge erred by treating anticipated statements in the ROC as bare assertions lacking evidentiary value and by excluding substantial parts of Omowaiye's anticipated evidence; read as a whole the ROC provided a reasonable basis for an inference that Akinbobola participated in the fraud, and therefore the appeal is allowed and the respondent is committed for extradition.

  • Extradition hearing
  • Prima facie case
  • Admissibility of certified record of case
  • Hearsay in extradition proceedings
  • Limited weighing of evidence
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Military law 2020 CMAC 2

R. v. Banting

The Court held it was not functus officio on costs and awarded Lieutenant Banting $10,000 in party-and-party costs on appeal, denying solicitor-client costs.

  • Costs
  • Abuse of process
  • Conduct prejudicial to good order and discipline (s.129 national defence act)
  • Prima facie case
  • Functus officio
  • Test case litigation
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