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Canadian courts are increasingly asked to allocate fraud losses between innocent parties—victims and their financial institutions. The Saskatchewan Court of Appeal's decision in Honeybadger Enterprises Ltd. v. Bue provides crucial clarity on common law principles governing liability allocation, establishing that parties whose conduct involves affirmative acts facilitating fraud will bear the loss, while financial institutions owe no duty to police transactions or warn customers absent contractual obli

A former employee received a 20-day jail sentence after she flagrantly disregarded a court order by disclosing the plaintiffs' confidential business methods and disparaging their business reputation