For many people, Susan Heyes is something of a folk hero. Ms. Heyes is the proprietor of Hazel & Co., a woman’s clothing store formerly located at the corner of 16th Avenue and Cambie Street in Vancouver. Like many other businesses located along the Cambie Street corridor, Ms. Heyes’ business was adversely affected by the construction of the rapid transit Canada Line ...
In an intersection of law and Canadian pop-culture, k.d. lang successfully defended her California judgment against her ex-manager, Annabel Lapp. Lapp, a Canadian resident, had been k.d.’s manager for 16 years prior to November 2005. Matters became nasty when k.d. sued Lapp in California for fraudulently handling her finances. k.d. effectively obtained a default ...
On December 12, 2010, the trustees of four dissident parishes within the Anglican Church of Canada (the “ACC”) announced that they will ask the Supreme Court of Canada to hear their appeal from the decision that the lands and buildings used by those parishes are held in trust for the ACC. Effectively, this decision means that those congregations must vacant their lands ...
Frequent readers of this blog will recall a post from September of this year where we wrote about an interesting case from the B.C. Supreme Court in which a defaulter under a purchase and sale agreement involving certain real property was able to avoid a claim for damages. The court had found that the vendor did not properly mitigate her damages thereby relieving the defaulting ...
Amendments to the Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act (BIA) and related new legislation came into force in the summer of 2008 which were aimed at significantly enhancing and protecting, among other things, employee related claims against bankrupt or insolvent companies. The amendments included a super priority charge over all assets for some, but not all, pension claims as ...
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