Sole director allowed redemption of his preference shares in closely-held private corporation at nominal amount and then became bankrupt.

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In this case, the parties entered into a Mary Carter Agreement.

Owner claimed he did not understand he was dealing with a corporation.

The debtor engaged in extensive shenanigans and transfers. He claimed a trust in favour of a corporation when the corporation was not incorporated until many years after the date the trust allegedly arose.

Paralegal held liable because she allowed a mortgage transaction to be completed after the proposed mortgagor had sold the property to a numbered company.

Paralegal’s invoice stated that payment was to be remitted 30 days from the date of the invoice.

Rule 2.1.02 allows the court to dismiss an action on grounds that the action is frivolous, vexatious, or an abuse of process.

In a trust claim, it has become commonplace to seek a request for a declaration that, if there is judgment for breach of trust, the judgment will survive the subsequent bankruptcy of the judgment debtor.

Rule 53.03 applies to situations in which experts are being retained by a party for purposes of the litigation.

A creditor commences an action against a debtor and obtains a judgment after a trial. The debtor then appeals and loses.

Judges accept or reject a witness’s testimony by asking themselves 2 questions.

Employer began negotiating a buyout of the employee's contract. Before any deal was made, the employee went on sick leave.

Every so often, a debtor is faced with the inevitable, but holds on to any defence available, no matter how untenable it might be.

Your client tells you his story of a dispute with his business partner, gives you a 40-page agreement, refers you to three lines in, say, paragraph 42(1)(ii) of it.

The Construction Lien Act is a technical statute; it gives rights to persons who have provided goods or services to an improvement, rights that would not have existed without the Act.

These issues were discussed in Grossman v. Toronto-Dominion Bank, a 2014 Ontario Superior Court of Justice decision.

Within a few months, the general started to receive complaints from subsubs that the sub had not been paying them.

The larger a law firm gets, the more important conflict searches become. The benefit of these searches became apparent to a law firm in Stewart v. Hosack 2014 ONSC 5693 (S.C.J.).