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Civil procedure 2025 BCCA 165

Ma v. Wu

The Court of Appeal dismissed an appeal as abandoned after the appellants failed to comply with a security for costs order and offered no realistic plan to pay.

  • Security for costs
  • Dismissal for abandonment
  • Prejudice to respondent
  • Merits of appeal
  • Interests of justice
  • Variation of court orders
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Family law 2024 BCSC 1112

E.F.K. v. R.J.

Court rejects a request to alter parenting authority over schooling, orders enrollment at the agreed school, fines a parent for breaching a conduct order, and grants limited disclosure.

  • School choice
  • Variation of court orders
  • Document disclosure
  • Breach of conduct order (s.228 fla)
  • Costs
  • Best interests of the child
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Trusts 2023 BCSC 1711

Whitson v. Whitson

The Supreme Court of British Columbia held that the Public Guardian and Trustee owed no duty of care, but found Claire-Laura Whitson liable for breach of trust.

  • Breach of trust
  • Breach of fiduciary duty
  • Duty of care
  • Proximity and foreseeability
  • Accounting by trustee
  • Variation of court orders
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Family law 2022 NSCA 75

Murphy v. Ibrahim

The court found Ms. Murphy raised an arguable appeal and, applying the modified Fulton test, concluded the child’s interests required partial intervention of the status quo: the limitation on supervised visits, and the requirement that a psychological assessment be a precondition to seeking variation, and the Costs Order were stayed pending appeal because prolonged delay and impecuniosity impeded mother‑child contact; however, the court refused to order security for costs because special circumstances did not justify denying a good‑faith impecunious appellant the right to appeal. Costs were n…

  • Stay of orders pending appeal
  • Security for costs
  • Supervised access
  • Psychological assessment with parental component
  • Variation of court orders
  • Imputed income
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Family law 2022 BCSC 380

R.A.G. v. T.A.I.D.

The court partially varied earlier parenting orders, replacing a delayed s. 211 assessment with a limited s. 202 views of the child report, while preserving the trial date.

  • Section 211 assessment
  • Section 202 views of the child
  • Parenting time
  • Interim orders
  • Variation of court orders
  • Costs
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Guardianship 2021 BCSC 1155

Hambleton (Litigation Guardian of) v. Hambleton

The court varied prior capacity-assessment orders and held that Dr. Rogers’ January 2019 evaluation satisfied them, dismissing a request for a further assessment.

  • Mental capacity assessment
  • Variation of court orders
  • Parens patriae
  • Undue influence
  • Expert evidence
  • Mental-capacity-assessment
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Family law 2020 BCSC 2122

Malkin v. Baccardax-Scully

The court declined to order an external audit or MRL, but required explanatory disclosure about PREC financial statements and dismissed the restraint application.

  • Interlocutory order
  • Document production
  • Management representation letter
  • Audit requirement
  • Asset preservation
  • Release of funds
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Strata property law 2019 BCSC 1714

Sherwood v. The Owners, Strata Plan VIS 1549

The court varied an entered strata order only to add liberty to apply, and dismissed all other requests to change the order or compel building-permit steps.

  • Variation of court orders
  • Interpretation of judgments and orders
  • Compliance with building permits
  • Remedies and enforcement
  • Variation-of-court-orders
  • Interpretation-of-orders
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Family law 2019 BCCA 212

D.L.T. v. K.K.M.

Appeal dismissed in a family-law dispute over therapy for the mother and contribution to the child’s tutoring expenses.

  • Variation of court orders
  • Section 7 extraordinary expenses
  • Therapeutic counselling choice
  • Standard of review
  • Best interests of the child
  • Family-law
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Insolvency 2018 ONCA 778

Crystallex International Corporation (Re)

The court dismissed the leave application because the motion judge correctly concluded there was no basis to vary the final amending CCAA orders: notice complied with the Initial Order and s.23 CCAA via the Monitor's published materials and website, shareholders had knowledge but failed to act forthwith, there were no slips, fraud or newly discovered facts to invoke inherent jurisdiction or r.59.06(2), the DIP lender had relied in good faith and would be prejudiced, and the substantive claims were time‑barred; accordingly the proposed appeal lacked prima facie merit.

  • Dip financing
  • Variation of court orders
  • Notice and service
  • Rule 37.14
  • Rule 59.06(2)
  • Inherent jurisdiction
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