Special and Non-Party Costs: AM Gold Inc v Kaizen Discovery Inc., 2022 BCCA 284
By Polly Storey and Jaicee Payette In a recent decision of the Court of Appeal, Justice Goepel has further refined the law of special costs. ... Continued
Potential Liability of Developers for Dangerous Construction Defects
By Dan W. Melnick and Denny Chung It has often been assumed that a developer that is not involved in the physical construction of a ... Continued
Changes to Privacy Law: FIPPA, Breach Notification and Privacy Management Programs
By Scott Lamb Major changes are underway to privacy law in Canada, and in British Columbia some of these changes have already been made. On ... Continued
Yang v. Shi, 2022 BCCA 317 – Summary Determinations at the Court of Appeal
By Polly Storey On July 18, 2022, new legislation and rules came into force governing appeals before the Court of Appeal for British Columbia.[1] In ... Continued
New Public Company Financing Exemption Will Streamline Process for Raising Capital
By Mani Saggu and Virgil Hlus The Canadian Securities Administrators (the “CSA”) approved a new prospectus exemption available to public companies listed on a Canadian ... Continued
Case comment: Urban Mechanical Contracting Ltd v Zurich, 2022 ONCA 589
By Roy Nieuwenburg QC and Manveer Sall Can a surety / bond issuer (in this case Zurich Insurance Company) rescind performance and payment bonds, based ... Continued
Back to Tort Law Basics – Plaintiff Fails to Establish a Duty of Care for Slip and Fall on a Municipal Sidewalk
By Meera Jain and Brian Poston In order to advance a claim in the tort of negligence, a plaintiff must first establish that the defendant ... Continued
Case Comment: Procedural Requirements for Relief under the Builders Lien Act
By Rosalie A. Clark We have previously reported on decisions that have been released by our courts this summer regarding the importance for lien claimants ... Continued
TSX Venture Exchange Revises Minimum Pricing Requirements
By Kim Brown, Maria Starko, Ethan Minsky and Virgil Hlus Effective June 23, 2022, the TSX Venture Exchange (the “Exchange”) has amended some of the ... Continued
Supreme Court of Canada Decides Mother 1 Has No Claim to Slain Multimillionaire’s Estate
By Zachary Murphy-Rogers and Jaicee Payette The Supreme Court of Canada has announced it will not hear the appeal brought by a woman known as ... Continued
The Duty to Defend in the face of Misrepresentation
By Bo Carter According to the Ontario Court of Appeal in the recent decision of IT Haven Inc. v. Certain Underwriters at Lloyd’s, London, 2022 ... Continued
Duty to Defend Triggered: Ambiguous Pollution Exclusion Clause
By Satinder Sidhu and Imroz Ali A tragic workplace accident, resulting in the death of the insured, laid the background for the Ontario Court of ... Continued