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The Dispute Masita Korean Cuisine Ltd. (“Masita”) leased restaurant premises on Kingsway in Burnaby from Collingwood Investment Ltd. (“Collingwood”). The written lease ran for five years, to June…
Read MoreThe Dispute A clinic owner hired a general contractor to carry out the construction work on her practice. When the work finished, the contractor sent a final invoice…
Read MoreThe Dispute A construction manager pursued an association that had hired it, seeking unpaid fees and a share of the profit the project was expected to earn. Years…
Read MoreThe Dispute Ada Rowlett co-signed a mortgage, later the subject of First West Credit Union v. Bizarro, 2024 BCSC 2047, so her nephew could buy a home in…
Read MoreThe Dispute A construction management company spent more than two years on a temple project in Richmond for a non-profit association. The cost estimates it produced kept landing…
Read MoreThe Dispute A construction project manager came out of a trial about a temple project the owner ended early with its claim for the lost profit still open.…
Read MoreThe Dispute A general contractor built a custom home for two property owners and, once the project finished, sued them for the balance owing on the contract. One…
Read MoreThe Dispute A couple building a new house agreed to sell it to a purchaser once construction was finished, with a completion date several months out. On the…
Read MoreThe Dispute A company leased a commercial unit to open a second location. The unit already contained a mezzanine, built before the landlord acquired the building, and the…
Read MoreThe Dispute A landlord and two tenants each came out of the same tenancy believing the other owed them money. The landlord said rent was unpaid and the…
Read MoreThe Dispute A lender had put money into business dealings with a former associate and was owed a sum in the mid five figures. The borrower could not…
Read MoreThe Dispute A construction management company had spent more than two years planning a building for a non-profit association when the association ended the arrangement, with nothing built.…
Read MoreThe Dispute A pharmacist opened a pharmacy inside a medical building, sharing a unit with a walk-in clinic run by two physicians. The arrangement worked because patients leaving…
Read MoreThe Dispute Bylaw officers searched a residential property in British Columbia under a warrant and found improvements built without building permits, including an added bedroom, a kitchen and…
Read MoreThe Dispute A contractor and its principal fell into a dispute with two companies over one contract, and the contractor sued first. The other side then sued in…
Read MoreThe Dispute A homeowner learned that someone had used the municipality's website to report a house addition, a pool, a garden suite and a basement suite built without…
Read MoreThe Dispute A driver was ticketed for speeding and for driving without consideration for others on the road. The driver went online to dispute it, could not find…
Read MoreThe Dispute A company bought an apartment in a strata building, hired a property manager to run it, and let it to a new tenant. Within days of…
Read MoreThe Dispute A homeowner hired a builder to renovate the house he had just bought, adding bedrooms and bathrooms upstairs and extending the back for a new kitchen…
Read MoreThe Dispute A homeowner was charged with nine bylaw offences over a kitchen, a sundeck, a pool and outbuildings built without permits, and over letting other people occupy…
Read MoreThe Dispute A professional practice leased commercial premises and hired a contractor to renovate them before opening. The work ran badly late, and the practice did not get…
Read MoreThe Dispute A couple who owned a three-bedroom apartment decided to take it back so their adult son could live there, and they gave their tenants notice. The…
Read MoreThe Dispute A woman held a joint bank account with her former spouse, money she considered hers to support herself and their two children after the couple separated.…
Read MoreThe Dispute A mother of two boys separated from their father and could no longer afford to remain in the community where the children had lived since birth.…
Read MoreThe Dispute The plaintiff had already had a trial date confirmed for a scheduled hearing when the defendants sought an adjournment on the eve of trial. The defendants…
Read MoreThe Dispute The claimant had already been through a full trial and a subsequent appeal that varied part of the original order. The proceeding did not end there.…
Read MoreThe Dispute A property owner held land carrying three mortgages, two of them in foreclosure with roughly a month left to pay them out or lose the property…
Read MoreThe Dispute A trade contractor had been drawn into the litigation that followed a commercial construction project. It had committed months of preparation to a long trial, and…
Read MoreThe Dispute A homeowner agreed to sell her house to a buyer who was putting together neighbouring lots for redevelopment. He removed every condition, paid his deposit, and…
Read MoreThe Dispute A tutor taught for about sixteen months at a company that prepared candidates for a professional licensing examination, then fell out with the owner over a…
Read MoreThe Dispute A man bought an electric scooter with pedals, rode it for years, and treated it as a bicycle that needed no licence and no insurance. One…
Read Moreat trial; its unsigned CCDC 17 bound it by conduct alone. ATAC LAW acted for the trade contractor, which left the project a net payer after most of…
Read MoreThe Dispute Two shareholders of a private company had been in dispute for years, and during examinations under oath one of them objected to the interpreter and questioned…
Read MoreThe Dispute A company had been negotiating a business arrangement with an artist, built around her existing body of work and what it might earn. The arrangement was…
Read MoreThe Dispute The client had already been through a family law trial that set parenting time and support. The other parent, restricted by an earlier court order from…
Read MoreThe Dispute A construction project manager had been awarded money at the end of a long dispute with the association that engaged it. Years passed between the work…
Read MoreThe Dispute A landlord ended her tenants' lease so she could move into the rental property herself. Not long after moving in, she had to leave the country…
Read MoreThe Dispute A homeowner hired a contractor to replace the aluminum and glass railings around her home, and the contractor brought in a design firm to check the…
Read MoreThe Dispute A separated father worked for a small import and retail business owned and run by his partner. Years earlier, a court estimated his income partly on…
Read MoreThe Dispute Two acquaintances in British Columbia carried on two informal money arrangements together in 2018. In one, a lender advanced a series of loans to a business…
Read MoreThe Dispute Four companies had bought a group of development properties, financed by a bank loan, and the loan was coming due before development had started. One of…
Read MoreThe Dispute A woman was the sole registered owner of a Metro Vancouver home, but her adult son had funded the entire purchase years earlier so the family…
Read MoreThe Dispute A tenant leased space in a commercial building to run a restaurant, and its two principals personally guaranteed the lease. After receiving repeated complaints about cleanliness…
Read MoreThe Dispute A family became involved in a lengthy dispute with the province after their daughter was taken into government care during a child protection investigation. Once she…
Read MoreThe Dispute Two sisters owned a house together. One of them paid out the five-figure balance owing on the mortgage over it, and the sisters then wrote out…
Read MoreThe Dispute A mother had helped her daughter buy two homes, taking mortgages over both as security for the money she advanced. After the relationship broke down and…
Read MoreThe Dispute A trade contractor was pulled into the litigation that followed a construction project, brought in by a defendant based overseas that held no assets in Canada.…
Read MoreThe Dispute A purchaser agreed in 2021 to buy a residential property in British Columbia for more than two million dollars, intending to live there with her sister…
Read MoreThe Dispute A forestry company agreed to buy a competitor's sawmill and its provincial timber licence out of a court-supervised bankruptcy sale. The price was fixed regardless of…
Read MoreThe Dispute A newcomer to Canada paid a business adviser a six-figure sum in US dollars to help her family become permanent residents, trusting he had the experience…
Read MoreThe Dispute A family hired a construction company to build two houses, each with a carriage house, on a lot that was to be subdivided first. The lot…
Read MoreThe Dispute Two people bought two residential properties together as an investment, with one registered on title to both and a written agreement setting out how they would…
Read MoreThe Dispute A shareholder in a taxi cooperative paid a substantial price for a fractional interest in a vehicle and a company operating licence. The company's general manager…
Read MoreThe Dispute Two former spouses had been through a trial and an appeal, and the result left one of them owing the other a sum in the low…
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