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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Meet the litigant described by a veteran homebuilder as “the worst person we’ve ever built for”, learn the intricacies of repudiation.
Continue readingTo 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 bite.
Continue readingAn 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 liability for a builders’ lien.
Continue readingCan 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? Are remedies under the Land Title Act available in a builders’ lien action? Is there a price to be paid for asking these questions? The answers lie within.
Continue readingA meditation on abandonment. Also a comparison of section 47 and rule 20 applications.
Continue readingA stitch in time saves none (unless it’s properly documented in accordance with the terms of the contract).
Continue readingIn which a summary application goes from easy to nightmarish, and civil litigators encounter that most feared thing: the rules of evidence.
Continue readingIn which the right to enjoy an afternoon beer on your rooftop patio is balanced against large economic losses to a construction company. The score at halftime? Beer: 1, Construction Company: 0.
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Whose decisions are entitled to more deference, a consultant’s or an adjudicator’s?
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