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Case Review – Campus Contracting Inc. v. Torbear Contracting Inc., 2023 ONSC 6782

Exempt yourself from Rule 53 requirements for giving evidence with this one weird trick. Also featured inside this week’s edition: “Soil, not as stable as it looks”.
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Case Review – Ellcar Ventures Ltd. v MacLeod, 2023 BCSC 2095

Meet the litigant described by a veteran homebuilder as “the worst person we’ve ever built for”, learn the intricacies of repudiation.
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Case Review – Backyard XP Inc. v. Cesario-Valela, 2023 ONSC 6312

To have a just cause is to be in the right, but "technically right" is the best kind of right. Your timely reminder that statutes have regulations and regulations have
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Case Review – 1361556 Alberta Ltd. v. Ristorante Cosa Nostra Inc., 2023 ABKB 590

An Italian restaurant serves up a tale of betrayal and vengeance, featuring financial ruin, a wildfire, and untimely death. Even more interesting, a study of when exactly a landlord acquires
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Case Review – BSSD Excavating & Landscaping Ltd. v. Green Blvd. Construction Ltd., 2023 BCSC 1685

Can a lien be cancelled if it claims an unreasonable amount owed? Can s. 24 of the Builders Lien Act be used as a backdoor method of cancelling a lien?
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Case Review – S3i Inc. v. Ecolomondo Environmental (Hawkesbury) Inc., 2023 ONSC 5071

A meditation on abandonment. Also a comparison of section 47 and rule 20 applications.
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Case Review – Sjostrom Sheet Metal Ltd. v. Geo A. Kelson Company Limited, 2023 ONSC 4959

A stitch in time saves none (unless it's properly documented in accordance with the terms of the contract).
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Case Review – 1936230 Ontario Inc. v. Hari Kaush Developments Ltd., 2023 ONSC 4718

In which a summary application goes from easy to nightmarish, and civil litigators encounter that most feared thing: the rules of evidence.
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