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4064
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824
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Family law
11025
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Human rights
318
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759
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Insurance
578
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Law profession
1344
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Limitation of actions
350
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Medical malpractice
319
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Mortgages
648
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Motor vehicle insurance
561
- Actions 18
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Motor vehicle liability
978
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Motor vehicle offences
135
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- Motor vehicles 564
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Municipal law
1012
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Native law
412
- Aboriginal rights 71
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- Actions generally 76
- Contracts 1
- Creditors' remedies 1
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- Land claims 23
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Negligence
492
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- Animals 21
- Apportionment of liability 7
- Boating 4
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- Children 12
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- Commercial hosts 8
- Construction 4
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- Damages 5
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- Defences 11
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- Duty of care 25
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- Foreseeability 6
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- Highway maintenance 13
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- Schools 6
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Occupiers' liability
254
- Bridges 2
- Churches 1
- Commercial premises 100
- Construction sites 9
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- Defences 4
- Farms 4
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- Independent contractors 1
- Legislation 2
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- Occupiers 7
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- Private roads 1
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- Public premises 20
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- Residential premises 34
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- Schools 6
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- Sidewalk 1
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- Partnerships 138
- Pensions 68
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Personal injury quantum
3692
- Aggravated damages 1
- Aggravation of pre-existing condition 144
- Ankle 13
- Ankle and back 1
- Ankles 2
- Appeals 72
- Apportionment of damages 3
- Arm 11
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- Arm, hand 1
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- Arms 1
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- Back 359
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- Back, neck and shoulder 47
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- Back, shoulder and arm 2
- Back, shoulder and hip 5
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- Brain 202
- Breast 4
- Burns 2
- Causation 97
- Chest 3
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- Chronic pain 103
- Chronic pain and myofascial pain 2
- Clavicle 1
- Collateral benefits 10
- Dizziness 2
- Dystonia 1
- Elbow 10
- Elbows 1
- Elderly plaintiffs 7
- Evidence 1
- Eye 7
- Face 5
- Family compensation act 48
- Fees of public guardian and trustee 1
- Fibromyalgia 24
- Finger 2
- Foot 10
- Future care costs 28
- Future income loss 1
- Hand 8
- Hand and elbow 1
- Hand and wrist 1
- Hands 2
- Head 13
- Headaches 40
- Hearing 8
- Hip 30
- Hip and shoulder 1
- Hip, back and knee 1
- Hip, neck and shoulder 1
- Hips 6
- Internal injures 1
- Internal injuries 6
- Intersections 1
- In-trust awards 2
- Jaw 11
- Knee 66
- Knees 5
- Leg 16
- Leg and ankle 3
- Leg and arm 1
- Leg and knee 7
- Leg, hip and wrist 1
- Legs 1
- Loss of earning capacity 2
- Loss of enjoyment 2
- Loss of future earnings 110
- Loss of homemaking capacit 1
- Loss of homemaking capacity 3
- Loss of housekeeping capacity 1
- Loss of opportunity 5
- Loss of pension 1
- Loss of profit 2
- Loss of sick leave benefits 2
- Lower back 1
- Management fees 22
- Minor injuries 32
- Mitigation 10
- Multiple injuries 65
- Multiples injuries 1
- Myofascial pain 7
- Nausea vertigo syndrome 1
- Neck 118
- Neck and arm 2
- Neck and back 536
- Neck and hip 1
- Neck and jaw 3
- Neck and shoulder 53
- Neck and shoulders 46
- Neck, back and arm 2
- Neck, back and chest 3
- Neck, back and hip 2
- Neck, back and knee 1
- Neck, back and shoulder 140
- Neck, back and shoulders 202
- Neck, back and wrist 1
- Neck, back, and shoulder 1
- Neck, back, and shoulders 1
- Neck, back, shoulder 1
- Neck, back, shoulders 1
- Neck, shouder and back 1
- Neck, shoulder 3
- Neck, shoulder and arm 7
- Neck, shoulder and back 43
- Neck, shoulder and hip 2
- Neck, shoulder, and arm 1
- Neck, shoulder, and back 1
- Neck, shoulder, back 1
- Neck, shoulders and back 10
- Neuropathic pain 1
- Paraplegia 7
- Past and future income loss 11
- Past and future loss of earnings 3
- Past income loss 32
- Payment of judgment 2
- Pedestrians 1
- Pelvis 4
- Pentaplegia 1
- Post-traumatic stress disorder 14
- Principles 11
- Proof of damages 17
- Psychological factors 7
- Psychological injury 101
- Quadriplegia 6
- Ribs 7
- Scarring 3
- Sexual assault 36
- Shoulder 74
- Shoulder and ankle 1
- Shoulder and arm 2
- Shoulder and back 7
- Shoulder and knee 2
- Shoulder and neck 1
- Shoulder, knee and neck 1
- Shoulder, neck and back 11
- Shoulders 3
- Shoulders and neck 1
- Special damages 5
- Spinal cord, bladder 1
- Structured judgments 1
- Tax gross-up 13
- Teeth 2
- Thoracic outlet syndrome 13
- Thumb 1
- Urological dysfunction 2
- Vertigo 1
- Vestibular disorder 1
- Visual-vestibular disorder 2
- Voice 1
- Whiplash 171
- Wrist 21
- Wrist, arm and leg 1
- Personal property 7
- Personal property security 106
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Practice
11295
- Access to court records by non-party 1
- Accounting 6
- Actions 68
- Adding defendant 1
- Adding defendants 1
- Adjournment 2
- Admissions 89
- Advance payments 17
- Advances 5
- Affidavits 102
- Amendment 1
- Appeal 3
- Appeals 2077
- Availability 1
- Case planning conferences 12
- Chambers proceedings 61
- Children 2
- Class actions 779
- Class proceedings 9
- Commencement of proceedings 79
- Consolidation 1
- Counterclaim 12
- Default judgment 240
- Disclosure 10
- Disclosure of documents 64
- Discovery 290
- Discovery of documents 886
- Dismissal 11
- Dismissal for want of compliance with court order 1
- Dismissal for want of compliance with order 41
- Dismissal for want of compliance with rules 20
- Dismissal for want of prosecution 303
- Documents 2
- Documents held by non-parties 1
- Evidence 576
- Evidence and procedure at trial 1
- Examination for discovery 302
- Examinations for discovery 1
- Expedited litigation project 12
- Expert reports 1
- Extension of time 1
- Fast track litigation 48
- Fatal injury claims 5
- Financial disclosure 11
- Fourth party proceedings 4
- General 1
- Guardians ad litem 14
- Indigent status 16
- Infant judgments 1
- Infant settlements 38
- Infants 2
- Injunctions 2
- Interlocutory motions 21
- Interpleader 19
- Interrogatories 30
- Intervenors 15
- Judicial case conferences 2
- Jurisdiction generally 1
- Jurisdiction of court 2
- Jury awards 108
- Jury trials 264
- Leave to appeal 4
- Letters rogatory 16
- Mediation 3
- Mistrial 1
- Money in court 7
- Money in trust 4
- No-evidence motions 4
- Notice of civil claim 1
- Orders 378
- Parties 496
- Parties under disability 1
- Physical examination and inspection 12
- Pleadings 1202
- Preliminary point of law 19
- Preservation of property 60
- Preservation orders 1
- Pre-trial conferences 3
- Pre-trial examination of witnesses 39
- Privilege 7
- Proceedings 1
- Production of documents 3
- Reconsideration 1
- References 1
- References and inquiries 14
- Representation agreements 1
- Representative proceedings 4
- Return of property 1
- Sales by court 4
- Separation agreements 1
- Service 30
- Service ex juris 32
- Set-off 1
- Settlement 1
- Settlement of action 219
- Small claims proceedings 178
- Solicitor’s fees 1
- Special case 7
- Stay of execution 16
- Stay of proceedings 59
- Stay pending appeal 1
- Striking out 3
- Subpoenas 13
- Substituting defendant 1
- Summary judgment 1
- Summary judgement 1
- Summary judgment 133
- Summary trial 672
- Third party proceedings 141
- Time 8
- Transfer of proceedings 1
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- Trial 583
- Trial management conferences 11
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- Trials 3
- Use of transcript 1
- Venue 31
- Witnesses 61
- Writ of summons 73
- Privacy 113
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Professions
194
- Accountants 38
- Acupuncturists 2
- Architects 2
- Building inspectors 1
- Chiropractors 1
- Commodities brokers 1
- Dental assistants 1
- Denturists 1
- Electricians 2
- Engineers 33
- Financial advisors 5
- Foresters 4
- Health professions 4
- Management consultants 2
- Massage therapists 4
- Notaries public 23
- Nurses 4
- Opticians 6
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- Pharmacists 8
- Physiotherapists 1
- Professional associations 2
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- Psychologists 7
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- Veterinarians 19
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Public authorities
498
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- Community support 1
- Container trucking commissioner 8
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- Director of child protection 2
- Director of civil forfeiture 112
- Director of commercial vehicle safety and enforcement 2
- Director of crime victim assistance 3
- Director of family maintenance enforcement 1
- Ferry commissioner 2
- Fire commissioner 1
- Gun control 20
- Immigration 7
- Liquor control 75
- Medical and health services 12
- Medicare 4
- Mental health 14
- Ministry of transport 1
- Pest control 1
- Pharmacare 4
- Police 131
- Public health inspectors and engineers 1
- Public trustee 10
- Representative for children and youth 1
- Safety standards appeal board 2
- School boards 3
- Sheriffs 2
- Social assistance 35
- Superintendent of family and child services 1
- Tobacco control 3
- Utilities commissions 1
- Vital statistics 12
- Public health & welfare 24
- Public inquiries 4
- Public utilities 39
- Quantum assessment 5
-
Real property
1439
- Adverse possession 7
- Agricultural land reserve 20
- Boundaries 21
- Building schemes 47
- Caveats 3
- Condominiums 460
- Contracts 1
- Co-ownership 80
- Easement 1
- Easements 189
- Encroachments 39
- Fixtures 9
- Heritage conservation 2
- Highways 14
- Housing co-operatives 7
- Indefeasibility of title 19
- Lateral support 6
- Legislation 8
- Licences 4
- Lis pendens 249
- Partition & sale 1
- Partition and sale 125
- Plans 4
- Public parks 1
- Recovery of land 8
- Registration of interests 47
- Registration of interests in land 1
- Residential tenancies 1
- Restrictive covenants 49
- Riparian rights 3
- Statutory right of way 9
- Strata corporations 2
- Surveys 2
- Receivers 123
- Resources 381
- Restitution 201
- Sale of goods 99
-
Sale of land
762
- Agreements for sale 10
- Building inspectors 4
- Completion of contract 84
- Contract 179
- Contractors 3
- Contracts 6
- Contractual interest 1
- Damages 1
- Developers 23
- Misrepresentation 117
- Options to purchase 42
- Real estate agents 96
- Remedies 151
- Right of first refusal 9
- Specific performance 1
- Vendor’s title obligations 3
- Vendor's title obligations 13
- Warranties 14
- Securities 194
- Societies 180
- Statutes 19
-
Taxation
573
- Carbon tax 1
- Corporate taxation 2
- Corporation capital tax 8
- Fire tax 2
- Fuel tax 3
- Gst 14
- Harmonized sales tax 1
- Hotel room tax 1
- Income tax 89
- Income tax offences 1
- Insurance premium tax 2
- Legislation 3
- Logging tax 3
- Mineral tax 5
- Parking rights tax 2
- Property transfer tax 35
- Real property assessment 252
- Real property tax 16
- Sales tax 108
- Social services tax 3
- Social-services tax 5
- Tax sales 4
- Tobacco tax 10
- Tort 1
-
Torts
679
- Abuse of process 7
- Abuse of public office 14
- Abuse of statutory authority 1
- Alienation of affection 1
- Ancillary liability 2
- Assault 77
- Assault and battery 4
- Battery 15
- Breach of confidence 14
- Breach of privacy 1
- Conspiracy 31
- Conversion 55
- Damages 2
- Deceit 19
- Detinue 3
- False arrest 1
- False arrest and imprisonment 15
- False imprisonment 2
- Fraud 8
- Fraudulent misrepresentation 9
- Fraudulent preferences 1
- Harassment 2
- Inducing breach of contract 9
- Injurious falsehood 1
- Intentional infliction of mental distress 1
- Intentional interference with economic relations 1
- Interference with contractual relations 11
- Interference with economic relations 2
- Intimidation 1
- Invasion of privacy 12
- Joint and several liability 8
- Malicious prosecution 15
- Misappropriation of personality 1
- Misfeasance in public office 17
- Negligence 1
- Nuisance 66
- Passing off 27
- Products liability 19
- Sexual assault 76
- Spoliation 3
- Trespass 6
- Trespass to chattels 4
- Trespass to land 94
- Vicarious liability 17
- Wrongful arrest 3
- Trial 1
-
Trusts
354
- Administration of trust 25
- Advisors to the trust 2
- Beneficiaries 9
- Breach of trust 26
- Charitable trusts 19
- Constructive trust 1
- Constructive trusts 41
- Creation 10
- Disclaimer 2
- Express trust 1
- Express trusts 54
- Express, resulting and constructive trusts 7
- Implied trusts 1
- Purpose trusts 2
- Rectification 1
- Remedies generally 6
- Resulting trust 2
- Resulting trusts 76
- Secret trusts 8
- Termination 8
- Trustees 51
- Wills & estate 1
-
Wills & estates
1007
- Actions 1
- Administration of estate 149
- Conflict of laws 3
- Costs 64
- Debts owed to estate 1
- Executors 2
- Executors and administrators 177
- Interpretation 1
- Intestate succession 48
- Legislation 7
- Passing of accounts 1
- Practice 4
- Property of estate 1
- Settlement of action 1
- Wills 260
- Wills interpretation 53
- Wills variation 234
- Workers' compensation 335
-
Commercial
14660
- Administrative law 93
- Agency 48
- Agriculture 13
- Arbitration 386
- Bailment 20
- Banking 69
-
Bankruptcy
318
- Actions 41
- Administration of estate 25
- Annulment 5
- Appeals 5
- Claims 39
- Cross-border insolvencies 1
- Discharge 45
- Legislation 3
- Petitions for receiving orders 23
- Practice 16
- Priorities 6
- Proceedings generally 1
- Property of the bankrupt 22
- Proposals 39
- Receiving orders 11
- Rights of creditors 1
- Securities firm bankruptcies 1
- Settlements and preferences 8
- Stay of proceedings 7
- Trustees 19
- Bills of exchange 48
- Builders' liens 168
- Carriers 21
- Charter of rights 5
- Choses in action 15
- Class actions 2
- Commissions 1
- Communications 6
- Condominiums 1
- Conflict of laws 312
- Constitutional law 32
- Construction law 321
- Consumer protection 27
- Contempt of court 129
-
Contracts
876
- Breach 150
- Breach of confidence 1
- Breach of duty 1
- Certainty of terms 6
- Collateral contracts 10
- Conditions precedent 6
- Consideration 1
- Contracts made while insolvent 1
- Discharge 47
- Enforceability 1
- Enforcement 8
- Formation 128
- Franchise agreements 6
- Interpretation 195
- Misrepresentation 16
- Mistake 8
- Mortgages 1
- Non-competition clauses 4
- Novation 4
- Parties 31
- Performance 18
- Privity 4
- Proof 5
- Rectification 14
- Releases 5
- Remedies 86
- Repudiation 2
- Restrictive covenants 23
- Restrictive coventants 1
- Tenders 3
- Termination 17
- Terms 20
- Unilateral contracts 3
- Unjust enrichment 1
- Validity 45
- Conversion 1
- Corporate opportunities 1
-
Corporations
867
- Actions 220
- Amalgamation 6
- Arrangement and compromises 7
- Arrangements and compromises 221
- Contracts 15
- Corporate opportunities 4
- Debentures 3
- Derivative actions 6
- Directors 1
- Directors and officers 48
- Dissolution 13
- Extraprovincial corporations 1
- Fraud and oppression 1
- Fraud or oppression 83
- Fraudulent conveyancesd or oppression 1
- Incorporation 1
- Liability 8
- Liability of agent 1
- Meetings 14
- Proceedings 9
- Records 5
- Redemption of shares 1
- Register of members 1
- Restoration and reinstatement 1
- Security 1
- Security agreements 1
- Security for costs 23
- Sha 1
- Shareholders 59
- Shareholders' agreements 1
- Shares 59
- Winding up 3
- Winding-up 47
-
Costs
924
- Administrative proceedings 4
- Amount involved 13
- Appeals 13
- Appeals as to costs 10
- Assessment 16
- Class actions 5
- Conduct of counsel 3
- Conduct of parties 81
- Contractual provisions 12
- Costs against non-parties 2
- Costs in the cause 1
- Costs of appeal 1
- Costs of appeals 60
- Costs of motions 29
- Disbursements 10
- Discretion of court 33
- Divided success 3
- Fast track litigation 9
- Increased costs 54
- Liability 2
- Nature of litigation 32
- Offer to settle 84
- Orders as to costs 2
- Outcome of litigation 146
- Parties entitled to costs 9
- Parties entitled to or liable for costs 2
- Parties liable for costs 3
- Payment of costs 1
- Persons entitled to costs 1
- Persons liable for costs 4
- Practice and procedure 6
- Procedural inefficiencies 5
- Recovery 1
- Security for costs 141
- Special costs 91
- Summary trial 2
- Tariff of costs 1
- Unfounded allegations 24
- Courts 108
- Creditors' remedies 179
- Creditors’ remedies 2
- Criminal law 4
- Crown 28
- Damages 43
- Defamation 92
- Defences 1
- Directors 1
- Education 2
-
Employment
869
- Characterization of relationship 23
- Constructive dismissal 75
- Contract of employment 155
- Contracts 2
- Corporations 1
- Duties and liability of employee 40
- Duties and liability of employee/employer 1
- Duties and liability of employer 11
- Duties of employee 1
- Legislation 39
- Remuneration 26
- Severance pay 3
- Vacation pay 1
- Wages 1
- Wills interpretation 1
- Wrongful dismissal 488
- Wrongful resignation 1
- Environmental law 65
- Equity 14
- Estoppel 78
- Examination for discovery 2
- Expropriation 50
- Fiduciaries 60
- Fourth party proceedings 1
- Franchises 18
- Fraudulent transactions 95
- Gaming 5
- Gifts 1
- Guarantee 1
- Guarantee & indemnity 118
- Human rights 21
- Income tax 1
-
Injunctions
462
- Anti-suit injunctions 9
- Anton piller orders 2
- Availability 7
- Enforcement 2
- Ex parte injunctions 19
- Interim injunction 2
- Interim injunctions 300
- Interlocutory injunctions 4
- Mandatory injunctions 7
- Mareva injunctions 97
- Mareva injunctions 1
- Permanent injunctions 2
- Pleadings 1
- Practice 1
- Remedies 2
- Statutory injunctions 5
- Variation 1
-
Insurance
195
- Actions 48
- Agents 17
- All-risks insurance 8
- Business interruption insurance 4
- Course of construction contract 1
- Course of construction insurance 2
- Creditors' insurance 1
- Creditors’ insurance 1
- Defences 2
- Directors and officers insurance 2
- Disability insurance 1
- Duties & liability of insured 1
- Duties and liability of insured 4
- Duties of insured 3
- Fidelity insurance 4
- Fire insurance 13
- Government regulation 2
- Homeowners' insurance 4
- Insurance generally 28
- Interpretation 1
- Interpretation of contract 1
- Interpretation of policy 5
- Liability insurance 17
- Liability of insurer 4
- Life insurance 1
- Marine insurance 12
- Mortgage life insurance 1
- Property and loss of income insurance 3
- Subrogation 3
- Intellectual property 28
- Interest 75
- Interest act 1
- Interim injunctions 2
- Interpretation 1
- Interpretation of policy 1
- Labour law 163
- Landlord & tenant 376
-
Law profession
277
- Conflict of interest 44
- Custodianships 3
- Discipline 3
- Duties and liability generally 29
- Law society 2
- Negligence 43
- Partnerships 13
- Removal of solicitor 2
- Remuneration 1
- Solicitor and client 1
- Solicitor’s fees 23
- Solicitor's fees 1
- Solicitors' fees 1
- Solicitor's fees 104
- Trust funds 2
- Unauthorized practice 4
- Withdrawal or removal of solicitor 1
- Liability insurance 1
- Limitation of actions 71
- Lis pendens 2
- Maintenance 1
- Mareva injunctions 1
- Maritime law 30
- Mortgages 327
- Motor vehicle insurance 13
- Motor vehicles 14
-
Municipal law
257
- Actions 4
- Building permits 2
- Building regulation 27
- Building regulations 1
- Business licences 2
- Business regulation 29
- Bylaws 9
- Bylaws and regulations 2
- Bylaws and resolutions 59
- Contracts 13
- Development cost charges 4
- Development permits 12
- Financial management 1
- Financial management of municipality 1
- Legislation 1
- Liability 13
- Municipal services 1
- Official community plans 1
- Powers 4
- Subdivision approval 1
- Subdivisions 10
- Tax sales 1
- Zoning 56
- Zoning bylaws 3
- Native law 47
- Natural resources 1
-
Negligence
131
- Apportionment of liability 2
- Breach of statute 1
- Causation 3
- Commercial hosts 1
- Construction 3
- Contributory negligence 1
- Damages 3
- Duty of care 6
- Fires 5
- Hazardous materials 3
- Joint and independent tortfeasors 1
- Liability in particular cases 1
- Manufactured goods 1
- Negligent hiring 1
- Negligent misrepresentation 79
- Performance of contract 11
- Proof of negligence 1
- Public officials 6
- Reliance 1
- Remanufactured goods 1
- Occupiers' liability 10
- Partnerships 109
- Pensions 32
- Personal property security 94
-
Practice
3220
- Access to court records by non-party 1
- Accounting 4
- Actions 20
- Adding defendants 1
- Admissions 20
- Advances 3
- Affidavits 29
- Appeals 522
- Availability 1
- Case planning conferences 2
- Chambers proceedings 12
- Class actions 446
- Class proceedings 3
- Commencement of proceedings 31
- Counterclaim 4
- Court order interest 1
- Default judgment 75
- Disclosure 7
- Disclosure of documents 35
- Discontinuance 1
- Discovery 11
- Discovery of documents 206
- Dismissal 2
- Dismissal for want of compliance with court order 1
- Dismissal for want of compliance with order 7
- Dismissal for want of compliance with rules 5
- Dismissal for want of prosecution 97
- Documents 2
- Evidence 73
- Evidence and procedure at trial 1
- Examination for discovery 113
- Expert reports 1
- Fast track litigation 2
- Fourth party proceedings 2
- Indigent status 1
- Injunctions 4
- Interlocutory motions 5
- Interpleader 12
- Interrogatories 12
- Intervenors 7
- Jury trials 19
- Leave to appeal 2
- Letters rogatory 11
- Mediation 2
- Mining 1
- Money in court 2
- Money in trust 3
- Orders 113
- Parties 148
- Physical examination and inspection 7
- Pleadings 377
- Practice 1
- Preliminary point of law 3
- Preservation and recovery of property 1
- Preservation of property 37
- Preservation orders 1
- Pre-trial examination of witnesses 7
- Privilege 4
- Proceedings 1
- Production of documents 2
- References and inquiries 5
- Representative proceedings 2
- Sales by court 2
- Service 10
- Service ex juris 27
- Set-off 1
- Settlement 2
- Settlement of action 58
- Small claims procedure 10
- Small claims proceedings 19
- Solicitor’s fees 1
- Special case 3
- Stay of execution 13
- Stay of proceedings 25
- Striking out 2
- Subpoenas 1
- Summary judgment 1
- Summary judgement 1
- Summary judgment 65
- Summary trial 257
- Third party proceedings 49
- Time 1
- Transfer to provincial court 1
- Trial 110
- Trial management conferences 1
- Trial of issue 1
- Trials 1
- Venue 5
- Witnesses 12
- Writ of summons 7
- Privacy 10
- Professions 56
- Proposals 1
- Public authorities 90
- Public health & welfare 8
- Public utilities 20
-
Real property
292
- Agricultural land reserve 4
- Building schemes 11
- Condominiums 86
- Contracts 1
- Co-ownership 7
- Easements 29
- Encroachments 3
- Fixtures 5
- Indefeasibility of title 2
- Legislation 5
- Licences 1
- Lis pendens 91
- Partition and sale 17
- Registration of interests 9
- Restrictive covenants 14
- Riparian rights 1
- Statutory right of way 5
- Surveys 1
- Receivers 105
- Remedies 2
- Resources 177
- Restitution 64
- Sale of goods 89
-
Sale of land
337
- Agreements for sale 7
- Completion of contract 38
- Contract 79
- Contractors 3
- Contracts 3
- Contractual interest 1
- Damages 1
- Developers 17
- Misrepresentation 25
- Options to purchase 21
- Real estate agents 50
- Remedies 69
- Right of first refusal 8
- Vendor’s title obligations 2
- Vendor's title obligations 6
- Warranties 5
- Securities 182
- Societies 18
- Statutes 6
- Stay of proceedings 1
-
Taxation
388
- Carbon tax 1
- Corporate taxation 2
- Corporation capital tax 8
- Fire tax 2
- Fuel tax 3
- Gst 7
- Harmonized sales tax 1
- Hotel room tax 1
- Income tax 33
- Insurance premium tax 1
- Legislation 3
- Logging tax 3
- Mineral tax 5
- Parking rights tax 2
- Property transfer tax 18
- Property transfer tax act 1
- Real property assessment 170
- Real property tax 10
- Sales tax 105
- Social services tax 3
- Social-services tax 3
- Tobacco tax 3
-
Torts
179
- Abuse of process 2
- Abuse of public office 9
- Abuse of statutory authority 1
- Assault 1
- Breach of confidence 8
- Conspiracy 13
- Conversion 28
- Deceit 11
- Detinue 2
- False arrest and imprisonment 1
- Fraud 5
- Fraudulent misrepresentation 6
- Fraudulent preferences 1
- Inducing breach of contract 6
- Injurious falsehood 1
- Interference with contractual relations 9
- Interference with economic relations 1
- Invasion of privacy 1
- Joint and several liability 3
- Malicious prosecution 3
- Misappropriation of personality 1
- Misfeasance in public office 3
- Nuisance 12
- Passing off 26
- Products liability 13
- Trespass to chattels 1
- Trespass to land 8
- Vicarious liability 2
- Wrongful arrest 1
- Trial 1
-
Trusts
88
- Administration of trust 5
- Advisors to the trust 2
- Beneficiaries 3
- Breach of trust 19
- Charitable trusts 1
- Constructive trust 1
- Constructive trusts 10
- Creation 8
- Express trusts 9
- Express, resulting and constructive trusts 1
- Purpose trusts 2
- Remedies generally 1
- Resulting trust 1
- Resulting trusts 6
- Termination 4
- Trustees 15
- Workers' compensation 33
- Wrongful dismissal 1
-
Criminal
18343
- Animals 45
-
Appeals
1107
- Abandonment 31
- Adjournment 21
- Appeal certificate 1
- Appointment of counsel 132
- Consent orders 1
- Costs 5
- Directions 4
- Dismissal 79
- Dismissal for want of prosecution 5
- Evidence on appeal 53
- Extension of time 85
- Factums 2
- Grounds for appeal 104
- Hearing before 5-judge panel 2
- Hearing of appeal 3
- Intervenors 18
- Judgments in dissent 1
- Jurisdiction of court 52
- Leave to appeal 127
- Notice of appeal 1
- Orders 3
- Pleas 2
- Powers of court 14
- Practice 39
- Reinstatement 2
- Release pending appeal 211
- Re-opening appeal 32
- Re-opening appeals 1
- Review applications 2
- Right of appeal 7
- Sentence appeals 17
- Stay 1
- Stay of sentence pending appeal 1
- Stay of sentencing pending appeal 1
- Stay pending appeal 17
- Summary conviction appeals 17
- Transcripts 5
- Withdrawal 1
- Arrest 185
- Arson 63
-
Assault
742
- Aggravated assault 306
- Assault causing bodily harm 166
- Assault of peace officer 34
- Assault to police officer 1
- Assault with a weapon 3
- Assault with intent to steal 1
- Assault with weapon 68
- Common assault 81
- Common asssault 2
- Defence 1
- Defences 11
- Evidence 9
- Sentence 45
- Sexual assault 2
- Sexual assault causing bodily harm 4
- Sexual assault with weapon 1
- Uttering threats to cause death or bodily harm 1
- Wounding 1
- Bankruptcy & insolvency 1
- Carriers 1
- Charter of right 1
-
Charter of rights
962
- Application 1
- Evidence 2
- Extra-territorial application 3
- Fundamental freedoms 3
- Proceedings for relief 36
- Remedies 2
- Remedies generally 15
- Search and seizure 1
- Section 2 1
- Section 2(b) 2
- Section 6 1
- Section 7 17
- Section 7 and 24(2) 1
- Section 8 42
- Section 9 4
- Section 1 1
- Section 10 5
- Section 10(a) 6
- Section 10(a) and (b) 3
- Section 10(b) 111
- Section 11 5
- Section 11(a) 1
- Section 11(a) and (b) 1
- Section 11(b) 269
- Section 11(d) 8
- Section 11(h) 3
- Section 11(h) and (i) 1
- Section 12 23
- Section 13 1
- Section 14 3
- Section 15 4
- Section 15(2) 1
- Section 2 1
- Section 2(b) 9
- Section 24 3
- Section 24(1) 3
- Section 24(2) 27
- Section 24(b) 2
- Section 6 2
- Section 7 39
- Section 8 107
- Section 8, 24(2) 1
- Section 9 18
- Sections 1 and 2(b) 6
- Sections 10(a) and (b) 1
- Sections 10(a)(b) and 24(2) 1
- Sections 10(b) and 12 1
- Sections 10(b) and 24(2) 1
- Sections 15 1
- Sections 15 and 25 3
- Sections 24(2) 1
- Sections 6 and 7 1
- Sections 7 3
- Sections 7 and 10(b) 2
- Sections 7 and 11 5
- Sections 7 and 11(b) 6
- Sections 7 and 11(d) 5
- Sections 7 and 12 1
- Sections 7 and 14 1
- Sections 7 and 15 1
- Sections 7 and 8 2
- Sections 7, 10 1
- Sections 7, 10(b) 4
- Sections 7, 11(b) 1
- Sections 7, 11(d) 1
- Sections 7, 11(d) and 24(2) 1
- Sections 7, 24(1) 1
- Sections 7, 8 and 10(b) 1
- Sections 7, 8 and 9 2
- Sections 7, 8, 10(b) 3
- Sections 7, 8, 9 1
- Sections 7, 8, 9, 10 1
- Sections 7, 9 and 24(2) 1
- Sections 7, 9, and 24(2) 2
- Sections 8 3
- Sections 8 and 10(a) 2
- Sections 8 and 10(b) 4
- Sections 8 and 24(2) 17
- Sections 8 and 9 17
- Sections 8, 10(b) 6
- Sections 8, 10(b) and 24(2) 2
- Sections 8, 24(2) 7
- Sections 8, 9 12
- Sections 8, 9 and 10 1
- Sections 8, 9 and 10(a) and (b) 1
- Sections 8, 9 and 10(b) 8
- Sections 8, 9 and 24(2) 3
- Sections 8, 9, 10 3
- Sections 8, 9, 10(a) and 10(b) 1
- Sections 8, 9, 10(b) 2
- Sections 8, 9, 10(b) and 24(2) 3
- Sections 8, 9, and 10 1
- Sections 8, 9, and 10(a) 1
- Sections 9 3
- Sections 9 and 10(b) 3
- Sections 9 and 11(e) 2
- Sections 9 and 24(1) 3
- Sections 9 and 24(2) 1
- Sections 9 and 8 1
- Sections 9, 10(a), 10(b) 1
- Sections 9, 10, 24(1) 1
- Sections 9, 24(1) 1
- Conspiracies 7
- Constitutional law 18
- Consumer protection 4
- Contempt of court 132
- Coroners 1
- Costs 1
- Counselling 13
- Courts 316
- Criminal negligence 43
- Criminal organizations 8
- Crown 115
- Currency offences 10
- Defences 243
- Disorderly or immoral conduct 26
-
Drug offences
1375
- Conspiracy to export 12
- Conspiracy to import 16
- Conspiracy to produce mdma 2
- Conspiracy to traffic 21
- Culivation of marijuana 1
- Cultivation 36
- Cultivation of marijuana 183
- Definitions 2
- Evidence 16
- Exporting 3
- Forfeiture orders 43
- Importing 54
- Legislation 30
- Possession 38
- Possession for purpose of exporting 8
- Possession for purpose of trafficing 2
- Possession for purpose of trafficking 651
- Possession for purposes of trafficking 5
- Possession for the purpose of trafficking 12
- Possession of cocaine for purpose of trafficking 1
- Precursor control 3
- Production of cannabis resin 1
- Production of ecstasy 2
- Production of fentanyl and methamphetamine 1
- Production of marijuana for purpose of trafficking 1
- Production of methamphetamine 6
- Production of methamphetamine and ecstasy 1
- Trafficking 224
- Environmental law 57
- Escapes 6
-
Evidence
1547
- Admissibility 5
- Admissibility generally 138
- Admissibility generally 1
- Admissions 4
- Affidavits 3
- Business records 1
- Certificate of conviction 1
- Character evidence 35
- Circumstantial evidence 43
- Commission evidence 1
- Competence 1
- Continuity of exhibits 2
- Criminal records 6
- Cross-examination 5
- Disclosure 1
- Disclosure by crown 99
- Dna evidence 7
- Dna testing 4
- Documents 69
- Evidence obtained out of court 2
- Evidence of judicial proceedings 2
- Evidence previously taken 10
- Exhibits 7
- Expert evidence 71
- Experts 1
- Failure of accused to testify 1
- Fingerprints 1
- Hearsay 115
- Heresay 2
- Identification 227
- Identification evidence 1
- Identity 2
- Inferences 6
- No-evidence motions 5
- Oaths and solemn affirmations 1
- Out of court statements 15
- Perjured evidence 2
- Photographs 14
- Post-offence conduct 2
- Prior consistent statements 24
- Prior inconsistent statements 9
- Prior statements 1
- Privilege 53
- Proof 16
- Publication 1
- Publication bans 25
- Rebuttal 7
- Rebuttal evidence 11
- Recognition evidence 1
- Record of accused 25
- Recovered memory 1
- Relevance 2
- Similar facts 59
- Statement of accused 1
- Statements of accused 370
- Statements of deceased 1
- Statements of young person 7
- Third party documents 2
- Tracking dogs 3
- Use of civil discovery evidence 1
- Witnesses 14
-
Extradition
553
- Appeals 11
- Application of charter 6
- Appointment of counsel 5
- Commital 3
- Committal 180
- Conduct of authorities 3
- Disclosure 45
- Evidence 57
- Extradition 1
- Judicial interim release 56
- Judicial review 6
- Jurisdiction of court 20
- Legislation 9
- Order for surrender 1
- Preliminary objections 8
- Procedure 6
- Proof of extraditable offence 3
- Property seized 2
- Publication bans 2
- Related proceedings 40
- Surrender 87
- Extraordinary remedies 91
- Failure to appear 1
-
Fisheries offences
130
- Acting as guide 3
- Depositing deleterious substance 14
- Depositing deleterious substances 1
- Destruction of habitat 23
- Disturbing marine mammal 1
- Double hauling 1
- Failing to comply with quota 4
- Failure to comply with licence conditions 2
- Fishing from unregistered vessel 1
- Fishing in closed area 9
- Fishing in closed time 19
- Fishing in non-canadian waters 5
- Fishing with prohibited gear or bait 1
- Fishing without licence 8
- Forfeiture 2
- Formal averments 1
- Foul hooking 1
- Illegal selling 4
- Illegally retaining and possessing bycatch 3
- Illegally retaining and possessing by-catch 1
- Legislation 2
- Licence condition violations 1
- Non-compliant equipment 1
- Obstruction 1
- Offences 2
- Penalty 1
- Release of fish from aquaculture facility 1
- Reporting requirements 2
- Search warrants 4
- Seizure of property 3
- Sentence 1
- Unlawful fishing for abalone 4
- Unlawful possession 1
- Unlawful trading 1
-
Fraud
253
- Attempted fraud 5
- Elements of offence 5
- Employment insurance 1
- Evidence 22
- Evidence on appeal 1
- False pretences 4
- Forgery 11
- Fraudulently inducing investment 3
- Identity theft and identity fraud 2
- Insurance fraud 4
- Mens rea 3
- Personation 10
- Secret commissions 1
- Sentence 136
- Uttering forged documents 6
- We;fare fraud 1
- Welfare fraud 27
- Gaming & betting offences 10
- Identification of criminals 8
- Immigration 39
- Income tax 65
- Indictment & information 81
- Interception of private communications 169
- Invasion of privacy 2
-
Judicial interim release
259
- Grounds for detention 12
- Jurisdiction of court 9
- Legislation 2
- Proceedings in case of default 7
- Recognizance 22
- Release pending appeal 2
- Release pending ministerial review 2
- Release pending new trial 6
- Release pending sentencing 2
- Release pending trial 29
- Review 2
- Review of detention order 4
- Review of detention order 110
- Review of order 36
- Revocation 2
- Vacating and varying 7
- Juries 200
- Law profession 50
- Legislation 1
- Maritime law 2
- Mental disorder 105
- Mischief 39
- Motor vehicle 1
- Motor vehicle insurance 4
-
Motor vehicle offences
1104
- Appeals 36
- Blood samples 8
- Breathalyzer evidence 91
- Changing lanes 1
- Criminal negligence causing bodily harm 6
- Criminal negligence causing death 33
- Dangerous driving 62
- Dangerous driving causing bodily harm 59
- Dangerous driving causing death 106
- Dangerous operation causing bodily harm 1
- Dangerous operation causing death 4
- Driving at excessive speed relative to conditions 1
- Driving prohibitions 18
- Driving prohitions 1
- Driving while disqualified or prohibited 77
- Driving while prohibited 6
- Driving while suspended 2
- Driving with excessive alcohol in blood 51
- Driving with excessive alcohol in blood causing death 1
- Driving without care and attention 1
- Driving without due care and attention 27
- Driving without insurance 4
- Driving without reasonable consideration 7
- Driving without valid licence 6
- Exceeding on-duty time limits 1
- Failure to display <n> sign 1
- Failure to keep log book 1
- Failure to remain at scene of accident 35
- Failure to slow for official vehicle 1
- Failure to stop at stop line 2
- Failure to stop for police officer 5
- Failure to stop for traffic light 3
- Failure to wear seatbelt 1
- Failure to yield 4
- Failure to yield to pedestrian 1
- Impaired care and control 39
- Impaired driving 96
- Impaired driving causing bodily harm 25
- Impaired driving causing death 56
- Legislation 7
- Licensing and regulation 3
- Loud and unnecessary noise 1
- Parking offences 7
- Passing on right 3
- Penalty 1
- Prosecution of offences 7
- Providing unlicensed passenger services 1
- Refusing breathalyzer 27
- Roadside screening demand 41
- Sentence 2
- Speeding 91
- Transportation of dangerous goods 5
- Unsafe passing 1
- Use of electronic devices while driving 25
- Vessels 1
- Motor vehicles 529
- Municipal law 34
- Murder 970
- Native law 40
- Negligence 1
- Obscenity 2
- Obstruction 84
- Offences against administration of law & justice 9
- Offences against public order 61
- Offences against the administration of law and jus 2
-
Offences against the person
305
- Abduction in contravention of child custody order 5
- Abduction of a person under 14 1
- Abduction of child without consent 3
- Administering stupefying drug 3
- Aiding or counselling suicide 1
- Assault causing bodily harm 1
- Attempted kidnapping 1
- Attempting to unlawfully cause bodily harm 1
- Concealing body of child 1
- Extortion 23
- Failure to provide necessaries of life 10
- Harassment 29
- Hate propaganda 4
- Kidnapping 76
- Polygamy 3
- Threats and intimidation 102
- Unlawful confinement 38
- Unlawfully causing bodily harm 2
- Offences by public officials 9
- Pardons 1
- Parole 27
- Parties to offences 33
- Pleas 88
- Practice 57
- Preliminary inquiry 43
- Prisoners 90
- Privacy 8
- Proceeds of crime 74
- Professions 2
-
Property offences
709
- Attempted robbery 11
- Attempted theft 2
- Break and entering and committing assault causing bodily harm 1
- Breaking and entering 130
- Breaking and entering and committing assault 3
- Breaking and entering and committing indictable offence 9
- Breaking and entering and committing mischief 4
- Breaking and entering and committing offence 1
- Breaking and entering and committing sexual assault 2
- Breaking and entering and robbery 2
- Breaking and entering and stealing firearm 2
- Breaking and entering and theft 2
- Breaking and entering with intent 1
- Breaking and entering with intent 43
- Breaking, entering and robbery 1
- Breaking, entering and theft 16
- Breaking, entering with intent 1
- Conspiracy to commit theft 1
- Copyright infringement 4
- Evidence 3
- Forcible entry 2
- Misappropriation of money held under direction 1
- Possession for stolen property 1
- Possession of break-in instrument 7
- Possession of stolen property 58
- Removal of timber from crown lands 1
- Robbery 285
- Robbery with a firearm 2
- Telecommunication offences 2
- Telecommunications offences 1
- Theft 83
- Theft of motor vehicle 2
- Theft over $5,000 13
- Theft under $5,000 6
- Unlawful entry into dwelling house 6
- Prosecution of offences 52
- Prostitution 25
- Public authorities 99
- Public health & welfare 14
- Public inquiries 2
- Recognizance to keep peace 46
- Resources 9
- Robbery 2
-
Search & seizure
745
- Admissibility of evidence 1
- Dna warrants 16
- Evidence 42
- General warrants 8
- Interception of private communications 1
- Legislation 11
- Possession of child pornography 1
- Preservation demands 1
- Production orders 4
- Return of seized property 21
- Search incidental to arrest 28
- Search warrants 397
- Sexual exploitation 1
- Video warrants 1
- Warrantless arrests 1
- Warrantless searches 211
- Securities 15
-
Sentencing
1040
- Aboriginal offenders 1
- Aboriginal person 1
- Aboriginal persons 36
- Adjournment 3
- Appeals 37
- Background of accused 1
- Conditional sentence orders 1
- Conditional sentences 116
- Consecutive sentences 12
- Considerations 286
- Dangerous offenders 219
- Discharge 18
- Dna orders 9
- Evidence 12
- Fines 1
- Illegal sentence 12
- Jurisdiction 2
- Long term offenders 1
- Long-term offenders 55
- Long-term supervision order 1
- Offences 1
- Period of parole inegibility 1
- Period of parole ineligibility 24
- Post-sentence reports 6
- Powers of court 1
- Presence of accused 1
- Pre-sentence reports 8
- Principles 22
- Probation 105
- Procedure 1
- Proceedings generally 10
- Prohibition orders 7
- Restitution 8
- Sentencing 1
- Sexual assault 2
- Stay of sentencing pending appeal 1
- Suspended sentence 1
- Terms 9
- Variation of sentence 5
-
Sexual offences
1512
- Accessing child pornography 15
- Aggravated sexual assault 33
- Bestiality 2
- Breaking and entering and committing sexual assault 9
- Buggery 3
- Charge to jury 1
- Child luring 1
- Corrupting children 1
- Dangerous offenders 2
- Defences 25
- Distributing an intimate image 1
- Distribution of child pornography 12
- Evidence 56
- Gross indecency 11
- Incest 25
- Indecent assault 32
- Indecent exposure 2
- Intercourse with person under 14 3
- Invitation to touch 7
- Jurisdiction of court 1
- Legislation 3
- Long-term offenders 1
- Luring of a child 2
- Luring of child 10
- Possession of child pornography 74
- Production of child pornography 12
- Rape 4
- Remedies 1
- Removal of child from canada 5
- Search warrants 1
- Sentence 1
- Sexual assault 774
- Sexual assault causing bodily harm 45
- Sexual assault with a weapon 2
- Sexual assault with weapon 16
- Sexual exploitation 39
- Sexual exploitation of person with a disability 2
- Sexual intercourse by threats 1
- Sexual intercourse with female under 14 8
- Sexual intercourse without consent 2
- Sexual interference 108
- Sexual interference with person under 14 2
- Sexual interference with person under 16 5
- Sexual offences 2
- Sexual offender registration 29
- Sexual touching 105
- Suspended sentence 1
- Transmission of child pornography 5
- Trial 1
- Voyeurism 9
- Special procedure & powers 18
- Special procedure and powers 12
- Statements of accused 3
- Statutes 6
- Taxation 55
- Terrorism 12
- Theft 1
- Tobacco offences 9
- Torts 8
-
Trial
334
- Addresses of counsel 5
- Adjournment 29
- Appointment of counsel 26
- Continuation of proceedings 1
- Conversion to preliminary inquiry 1
- Cross-examination 1
- Cross-examination of accused 1
- Cross-examination of witnesses 6
- Directed verdict 5
- Election by accused 20
- Exclusion of public 1
- Fitness to stand trial 18
- Intervenors 1
- Language at trial 1
- Language of trial 8
- Mistrial 57
- Multiple accused 1
- Nonsuit 1
- Presence of accused 17
- Re-opening 16
- Re-opening appeal 1
- Severance 19
- Severance of counts 20
- Stay of proceedings 27
- Unrepresented accused 25
- Venue 19
- View 3
- Witnesses 4
- Verdict 127
- Vessels 4
-
Weapons
292
- Carrying a concealed weapon 3
- Carrying concealed weapon 2
- Carrying firearm in careless manner 2
- Discharge of a firearm with intent to wound 1
- Discharge of firearm with intent to endanger life 3
- Discharge of firearm with intent to wound 5
- Discharging firearm with intent to endanger life 1
- Firearms 98
- Gun control 20
- Handling and storage 1
- Importing 2
- Possession for dangerous purpose 18
- Possession of loaded firearm 1
- Possession of prohibited firearm 4
- Possession of prohibited or restricted firearm 6
- Possession of prohibited or restricted firearm with ammunition 11
- Possession of prohibited weapon 51
- Possession of restricted firearm 6
- Possession of restricted weapon 25
- Possession of unregistered firearm 4
- Possession while prohibited 5
- Reckless discharge of firearm 3
- Seizure 1
- Trafficking 10
- Unauthorized possession 2
- Use of firearm during indictable offence 6
- Use of firearm in commission of offence 1
-
Wildlife offences
48
- Accidental killing of wildlife 1
- Acting as guide without licence 4
- Appeals 1
- Destruction of habitat 1
- Disturbing marine mammals 1
- Failure to report location of harvest 1
- Failure to retrieve wildlife 1
- Hunting contrary to licence 1
- Hunting during closed time 2
- Hunting without valid licence 3
- Illegal hunting 16
- Illegal possession of wildlife 3
- Poisoning wildlife 1
- Search and seizure 1
- Seizure of property 3
- Sentence 1
- Trafficking bear parts 1
- Trafficking in dead wildlife 4
- Trafficking in wildlife 1
-
Witnesses
100
- Adverse witnesses 7
- Communication with counsel 1
- Competence 12
- Competence and compellability 3
- Cross-examination 37
- Cross-examination as to previous statements 1
- Interpreters 3
- Recalling 1
- Records relating to witnesses 2
- Subpeonas 1
- Subpoena 6
- Testimony behind screen 2
- Testimony outside court room 13
- Testimony outside courtroom 5
- Testimony with support canine 1
- Testimony with support person 1
- Witnesses called by trial judge 4
-
Young offenders
378
- Aggravated assault 17
- Aggravated sexual assault 2
- Appeals 2
- Arson 2
- Assault 13
- Assault causing bodily harm 15
- Assault with weapon 9
- Breach of probation 2
- Breaking and entering 10
- Breaking and entering and committing offence 2
- Criminal negligence causing death 3
- Dangerous driving 1
- Dangerous driving causing death 5
- Defences 1
- Disclosure of records 13
- Dna samples 8
- Drug offences 3
- Escapes 1
- Evidence 2
- Extortion 3
- Harassment 1
- Impaired driving causing death 1
- Incest 1
- Judicial interim release 17
- Kidnapping 1
- Legislation 3
- Manslaughter 19
- Mischief 6
- Murder 12
- Offences against public order 6
- Possession of child pornography 1
- Prisoners 1
- Protection of privacy 4
- Release pending appeal 2
- Robbery 24
- Sentencing 71
- Sexual assault 27
- Sexual assault causing bodily harm 2
- Sexual interference 1
- Sexual offender registration 3
- Sexual touching 2
- Statements of young person 20
- Temporary detention 1
- Theft 6
- Threats and intimidation 3
- Transfer to ordinary court 9
- Transfer to youth court 8
- Trial 6
- Weapons 5
-
Family
14465
- Administrative law 2
- Adoption 1
- Agency 2
- Annulment 4
- Ante nuptial settlements 1
- Appeals 7
- Arbitration 26
- Banking 1
- Bankruptcy 32
- Bills of exchange 1
- Charter of rights 28
- Child protection 1
-
Children
5895
- Ability to pay 3
- Access 421
- Acess 1
- Adoption 51
- Arrears 1
- Change of name 3
- Child protection 345
- Conduct of parent 1
- Conflict of laws 9
- Continuing custody orders 1
- Costs 1
- Cusody and access 1
- Custody 1076
- Custody and access 760
- Education 36
- Guardianship 56
- Hague convention 77
- Interim custody 2
- Joint custody 1
- Jurisdiction of court 106
- Maintenance 2474
- Maintenance provisions 1
- Medical care 5
- Minority rights 1
- Mobility rights 409
- Non-removal orders 5
- Parentage 3
- Parenting arrangements 1
- Parenting coordinator 2
- Paternity 15
- Prenatal and birth expenses 1
- Protection orders 2
- Separation agreements 1
- Shared parenting 18
- Unborn children 1
- Variation 2
- Common law spouses 488
- Conflict of laws 84
- Consent orders 1
- Constitutional law 5
- Contempt of court 132
- Contracts 19
- Corporations 1
-
Costs
915
- Administrative proceedings 1
- Appeals 8
- Appeals as to costs 4
- Assessment 14
- Conduct of counsel 8
- Conduct of parties 20
- Costs against non-parties 5
- Costs of appeals 35
- Costs of motions 17
- Disbursements 3
- Discretion of court 8
- Increased costs 3
- Interest on costs 1
- Matrimonial litigation 5
- Matrimonial proceedings 630
- Nature of litigation 3
- Offer to settle 45
- Orders as to costs 1
- Outcome of litigation 23
- Particular items 1
- Parties entitled to costs 6
- Parties liable for costs 1
- Payment of costs 2
- Practice and procedure 6
- Security for costs 19
- Solicitor's personal liability for costs 3
- Special costs 36
- Tariff of costs 2
- Unfounded allegations 3
- Courts 148
- Creditors' remedies 13
- Crown 24
- Custody 1
- Custody and access 6
- Damages 5
- Declaration of irreconcilability 9
- Defamation 5
- Division 2
- Divorce 76
- Education 1
- Equity 1
- Estoppel 17
- Family compensation act 36
- Family law 107
- Fiduciaries 3
- Formation 1
- Fraudulent transactions 17
- Gifts 30
- Guardianship 1
- Human rights 4
- Injunctions 27
- Insurance 3
- Interest 8
- Interim injunctions 1
- Jurisdiction of court 2
-
Law profession
307
- Conflict of interest 34
- Conflicts of interest 1
- Custodianships 1
- Duties and liability generally 2
- Legal aid 3
- Negligence 15
- Removal of solicitor 4
- Retainer 1
- Solicitor’s fee 1
- Solicitor’s fees 43
- Solicitor's fees 4
- Solicitor's fees 194
- Trust funds 1
- Unauthorized practice 1
- Withdrawal or removal of solicitor 1
- Limitation of actions 25
-
Maintenance
1412
- Ability to pay 19
- Arrears 39
- Cancellation 1
- Children 1
- Commencement date 1
- Compensatory award 13
- Duration 2
- Education of spouse 11
- Encroachment on capital 1
- Enforcement 14
- Entitlement 279
- Foreign orders 1
- Health of spouse 22
- Implied agreements 1
- Interim maintenance 284
- Jurisdiction of court 4
- Legislation 1
- Liability 4
- Liability of spouse's estate 3
- Lump sum 17
- Manner of payment 1
- Misconduct of payor spouse 3
- Nature of claim 1
- Orders for maintenance 31
- Parties 1
- Permanent maintenance 19
- Practice 10
- Provisional orders 11
- Retroactive orders 6
- Retroactivity 1
- Review 111
- Security 1
- Self-sufficiency 19
- Tax considerations 2
- Termination 79
- Terms 1
- Time-limited orders 22
- Variation 325
- Marriage 30
- Marriage agreements 107
- Marriage settlements 1
- Matrimonial proceedings 7
-
Matrimonial property
2110
- Advances 1
- Appeals 3
- Appreciation in value 1
- Businesses 14
- Characterization 208
- Characterization trust property 1
- Compensation 36
- Compensation orders 1
- Concealment of assets 16
- Conflict of laws 3
- Contingent liabilities 2
- Contribution of spouses 80
- Contribution of third parties 48
- Debts 55
- Diision 1
- Dissipation 6
- Distribution 1
- Division 406
- Duration of marriage 18
- Excluded property 36
- Health of spouse 9
- Inheritances 32
- Insurance proceeds 2
- Interim distribution 30
- Jurisdiction of court 3
- Lottery winnings 1
- Occupation 43
- Orders 1
- Orders for division 4
- Partition and sale 121
- Pensions 86
- Pets 1
- Possession 8
- Post-trial settlement agreements 2
- Preservation 25
- Property on indian reserves 3
- Reapportionment 662
- Restraining orders 6
- Resulting trusts 1
- Security 1
- Separation agreements 1
- Trust property 7
- Valuation 102
- Variation 2
- Mental incompetence 11
- Mobility rights 1
- Mortgages 12
- Negligence 6
- Orders 3
- Parties 1
- Partnerships 1
- Pensions 6
- Personal injury quantum 4
- Personal property 2
- Personal property security 1
- Post-nuptial settlements 1
-
Practice
1426
- Actions 9
- Adding parties 1
- Adjournment 1
- Admissions 5
- Advance payments 1
- Advances 26
- Affidavit 1
- Affidavits 13
- Appeals 393
- Appointment of family advocate 5
- Chambers proceeding 2
- Chambers proceedings 21
- Children 2
- Class actions 7
- Commencement of proceedings 7
- Consent orders 2
- Counselling costs 1
- Declaratory orders 1
- Default judgment 15
- Disclosure 1
- Disclosure of documents 4
- Discovery 8
- Discovery of documents 85
- Dismissal for want of compliance with order 2
- Dismissal for want of prosecution 15
- Documents held by non-parties 2
- Evidence 46
- Examination for discovery 5
- Expert reports 2
- Extension of time 1
- Fatal injury claims 6
- Financial disclosure 48
- General 1
- Guardians ad litem 1
- Indigent status 7
- Infant settlements 2
- Interlocutory applications 1
- Interlocutory motions 7
- Interpleader 3
- Judicial case conferences 4
- Jurisdiction of court 7
- Jury trials 1
- Mediation 1
- Money in court 1
- Money in trust 1
- Motions 1
- Nervous shock 1
- Orders 171
- Orders respecting conduct 3
- Parties 42
- Pleadings 84
- Preliminary point of law 1
- Preservation of property 5
- Pre-trial examination of witnesses 4
- Publication bans 4
- References 3
- References and inquiries 4
- Re-opening 1
- Return of property 2
- Sales by court 2
- Separation agreements 1
- Service 4
- Service ex juris 3
- Settlement 3
- Settlement conferences 2
- Settlement of action 58
- Small claims proceedings 2
- Stay of execution 1
- Stay of proceedings 7
- Stay pending appeal 1
- Striking out 1
- Subpoenas 3
- Summary judgment 4
- Summary trial 68
- Third party proceedings 1
- Transfer of proceedings 2
- Trial 125
- Trial management conferences 2
- Trials 1
- Variation 1
- Venue 15
- Witnesses 6
- Writ of summons 2
- Privacy 11
- Professions 2
- Property 1
- Public authorities 19
- Public health & welfare 3
- Real property 87
- Receivers 2
- Restitution 46
- Restraining orders 49
- Sale of land 2
- Same sex couples 1
-
Separation agreements
402
- Amendment 1
- Breach 5
- Child custody and access provisions 9
- Child maintenance provisions 5
- Child support provisions 1
- Custody and maintenance provisions 8
- Effect 3
- Effect of reconciliation 5
- Enforceability 17
- Enforcement 35
- Formation 27
- Interpretation 17
- Maintenance provisions 91
- Property provisions 24
- Remedies generally 5
- Repudiation 1
- Setting aside 12
- Validity 82
- Variation 49
- Taxation 1
- Torts 46
- Trusts 51
- Wills & estates 70
- Wills variation 1
- Workers' compensation 3
-
Insurance
2011
- Accident insurance 16
- Actions 129
- Administrative law 6
- Agency 5
- Agents 43
- All-risks insurance 23
- Arbitration 13
- Bailment 1
- Bankruptcy 4
- Brain 1
- Builders' liens 1
- Business interruption insurance 4
- Casualty insurance 1
- Charter of rights 3
- Choses in action 1
- Claims 1
- Comprehensive insurance 1
- Conflict of laws 20
- Construction law 1
- Contracts 14
-
Costs
132
- Appeals 2
- Appeals as to costs 7
- Assessment 2
- Conduct of counsel 3
- Conduct of parties 17
- Costs against non-parties 1
- Costs of appeals 11
- Costs of motions 3
- Disbursements 2
- Discretion of court 6
- Fast track litigation 2
- Increased costs 4
- Nature of litigation 4
- Offer to settle 21
- Orders as to costs 1
- Outcome of litigation 15
- Parties entitled to costs 2
- Parties liable for costs 1
- Payment into court 1
- Practice and procedure 3
- Security for costs 7
- Special costs 13
- Unfounded allegations 4
- Course of construction insurance 1
- Courts 11
- Creditors' insurance 3
- Damages 16
- Defences 1
- Directors & officers' insurance 2
- Disability insurance 89
- Duties & liability of insured 9
- Duties & liability of insurer 4
- Duties and liability of insured 1
- Duties of insured 9
- Employment 3
- Estoppel 4
- Fidelity insurance 4
- Fire insurance 34
- Fraudulent transactions 18
- Government regulation 3
- Homeowners' insurance 33
- Homeowners’ insurance 4
- Human rights 2
- Injunctions 8
- Insurance 14
-
Insurance generally
85
- By-law coverage 2
- Claims 9
- Claims adjusters 1
- Conditions of coverage 3
- Contract of insurance 2
- Deductibles 1
- Duties of insured 2
- Effective date of coverage 1
- Insurable interest 3
- Interpretation of policy 7
- Lapse of policy 3
- Legislation 9
- Liability of insurer to third parties 1
- Nature of relationship 1
- Onus of proof 1
- Overlapping coverage 5
- Proof of loss 2
- Relief from forfeiture 1
- Renewal 2
- Rights and obligations of insured 4
- Rights and obligations of insurer 2
- Subrogation 16
- Sureties 1
- Termination of policy 1
- Valuation of loss 3
- Interest 4
- Interpretation of policy 5
- Labour law 2
- Landlord & tenant 6
- Law profession 16
- Liability insurance 34
- Liability of insurer 5
- Life insurance 39
- Limitation of actions 40
- Marine insurance 13
- Maritime law 1
-
Motor vehicle insurance
557
- Actions 16
- Collector vehicles 1
- Coverage for substitute vehicles 4
- Duties of insured 3
- Duties of insurer 2
- Exclusions 10
- Government regulation 1
- Insurance generally 1
- Insurance monies 2
- Interpretation of policy 3
- Legislation 29
- Liability of insured 9
- Liability of insurer 134
- Liability of owner 2
- Mediation of disputes 2
- No fault benefits 188
- No-fault benefits 5
- Offences 6
- Overlapping coverage 1
- Practice 1
- Recovery for loss of income 5
- Replacement-cost policies 1
- Rights of insurer 2
- Structured judgments 6
- Subrogation 1
- Unauthorized driver 1
- Underinsured motorist protection 5
- Underinsured motorists 8
- Unidenitified drivers 1
- Unidentified drivers 7
- Uninsured motorists 11
- Unknown drivers 81
- Unlicensed vehicles 1
- Unqualified driver 5
- Vehicle repairs 2
- Motor vehicle liability 3
- Motor vehicles 2
- Municipal law 1
- Native law 2
- Negligence 19
- Personal injury quantum 10
-
Practice
413
- Admissions 3
- Advance payments 2
- Appeals 57
- Chambers proceedings 1
- Class actions 19
- Default judgment 6
- Disclosure of documents 1
- Discovery 11
- Discovery of documents 53
- Dismissal for want of prosecution 15
- Evidence 19
- Examination for discovery 14
- Fast track litigation 4
- Interrogatories 2
- Jury awards 2
- Jury trials 36
- Orders 12
- Parties 23
- Parties under disability 1
- Pleadings 34
- Preservation of property 1
- Privilege 2
- Settlement of action 14
- Small claims proceedings 2
- Special case 1
- Stay of proceedings 3
- Subpoenas 1
- Summary judgment 3
- Summary trial 30
- Third party proceedings 10
- Trial 26
- Trials 1
- Writ of summons 3
- Privacy 4
- Property & loss of income insurance 3
- Property and loss of income insurance 1
- Public authorities 1
- Restitution 2
- Rights & obligations of insurer 1
- Rights of insurer 2
- Societies 1
- Statutes 5
- Sureties 2
- Taxation 5
- Torts 19
- Travel insurance 9
- Trusts 3
- Unknown drivers 1
- Wrongful dismissal 1
-
Labour & employment
4010
- Abandonment 1
- Administrative law 64
- Agency 7
- Appeals 1
- Arbitration 87
- Bailment 1
- Bankruptcy 2
- Bills of exchange 1
- Carriers 2
- Characterization of relationship 18
- Charter of rights 31
- Class actions 1
- Collective agreements 50
- Commissioners 1
- Conflict of laws 38
- Constitutional law 6
- Constructive dismissal 85
- Contempt of court 49
- Continuation 1
-
Contract of employment
223
- Apprenticeships 2
- Benefit plans 6
- Breach 10
- Conflict of laws 2
- Distinguished from other contracts 10
- Distinguished from other relationships 4
- Fixed term 17
- Fixed-term 1
- Formation 4
- Frustration 3
- Implied terms 5
- Interpretation 21
- Legislation 1
- Non-competition clauses 30
- Parties 9
- Public service contracts 3
- Repudiation 5
- Share options 5
- Stock options 4
- Termination 10
- Termination provisions 40
- Terms 25
- Validity 1
- Contracts 57
- Corporations 12
-
Costs
201
- Administrative proceedings 1
- Amount involved 15
- Appeals 7
- Appeals as to costs 1
- Assessment 1
- Conduct of counsel 4
- Conduct of parties 14
- Contractual provisions 2
- Costs of appeals 12
- Costs of motions 7
- Disbursements 1
- Discretion of court 7
- Fast track litigation 7
- Increased costs 11
- Nature of litigation 12
- Offer to settle 27
- Orders as to costs 1
- Outcome of litigation 39
- Parties entitled to costs 3
- Practice and procedure 2
- Procedural inefficiencies 1
- Prospective costs 2
- Security for costs 7
- Small claims proceedings 1
- Special costs 13
- Summary assessment 1
- Unfounded allegations 1
- Courts 87
- Creditors' remedies 12
- Crown 10
- Damages 5
- Defamation 26
- Defences 1
- Duties & liability of employee 38
- Duties & liability of employee/employer 1
- Duties & liability of employer 41
- Duties and liability of employee 4
- Duties and liability of employer 2
- Duties of employee 1
- Education 6
- Employment 45
- Employment legislation 20
- Estoppel 14
- Fiduciaries 9
- Fraud 1
- Fraudulent transactions 1
- Grievance arbitration 81
- Guarantee & indemnity 1
- Health professions 1
-
Human rights
184
- Canadian human rights act 1
- Discrimination in accommodation, service and facility 2
- Discrimination of basis of family status 1
- Discrimination on basis of age 10
- Discrimination on basis of disability 24
- Discrimination on basis of family status 10
- Discrimination on basis of mental disability 2
- Discrimination on basis of race or national or ethnic origin 11
- Discrimination on basis of sex 13
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- Jurisdiction of court 1
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- Proceedings for relief 26
- Injunctions 86
- Insurance 72
- Intellectual property 3
- Interest 4
- Interest arbitration 2
- Judicial review 1
- Jurisdiction of court 56
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- Labour relations board 101
- Law profession 41
- Legislation 53
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- Medicine 29
- Negligence 23
- Partnerships 10
- Pensions 66
- Personal property security 1
- Pharmacists 1
- Picketing 35
-
Practice
523
- Actions 4
- Admissions 3
- Affidavits 2
- Appeals 109
- Class actions 52
- Commencement of proceedings 7
- Default judgment 3
- Disclosure of documents 8
- Discovery 3
- Discovery of documents 41
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- Dismissal for want of prosecution 5
- Evidence 9
- Examination for discovery 19
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- Intervenors 2
- Jury trials 5
- Orders 15
- Parties 8
- Pleadings 102
- Preliminary point of law 4
- Pre-trial examination of witnesses 2
- Service ex juris 1
- Settlement of action 8
- Small claims proceedings 6
- Stay of proceedings 4
- Subpoenas 1
- Summary judgment 4
- Summary trial 46
- Third party proceedings 3
- Transfer to provincial court 1
- Trial 28
- Trial management conferences 1
- Venue 1
- Witnesses 4
- Writ of summons 2
- Privacy 21
-
Professions
152
- Accountants 9
- Acupuncturists 2
- Architects 2
- Chiropractors 1
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- Dentists 11
- Denturists 1
- Doctors 20
- Electricians 2
- Engineers 18
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- Public authorities 36
- Public sector employers 3
- Remuneration 30
- Restitution 12
- Sale of land 2
- Societies 1
- Successor rights 1
- Taxation 2
-
Torts
49
- Abuse of process 1
- Abuse of public office 1
- Assault 1
- Breach of confidence 5
- Breach of privacy 1
- Conspiracy 4
- Conversion 9
- Deceit 1
- Fraud 1
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- Interference with contractual relations 4
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- Misfeasance in office 1
- Misfeasance in public office 1
- Passing off 3
- Sexual assault 3
- Trespass 2
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- Workers’ compensation 1
- Wrongful dismissal 598
-
Municipal
2095
- Actions 32
- Administrative law 33
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- Animals 12
- Arbitration 8
- Building regulation 90
- Building regulations 1
- Business regulation 41
-
Bylaws & resolutions
231
- Animal control 4
- Animal regulation 1
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- Enactment 23
- Enforcement 64
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- Health bylaws 1
- Interpretation 3
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- Noise bylaws 11
- Parking bylaws 1
- Residential bylaws 1
- Service cost recovery 1
- Sign control 3
- Smoking bylaws 3
- Soil removal bylaws 4
- Standing to challenge 1
- Traffic and parking bylaws 11
- Utility services 1
- Validity 82
- Waste management bylaws 1
- Zoning 1
- Bylaws and regulations 5
- Bylaws and resolutions 52
- Capital expenditures 1
- Carriers 1
- Charter of rights 12
- Condominiums 1
- Constitutional law 12
- Construction law 8
- Contempt of court 15
- Contracts 48
-
Costs
103
- Advance costs 1
- Appeals 2
- Assessment 5
- Conduct of parties 10
- Costs of appeal 1
- Costs of appeals 6
- Costs of motions 1
- Discretion of court 2
- Increased costs 3
- Nature of litigation 15
- Offer to settle 10
- Outcome of litigation 27
- Parties entitled to costs 1
- Parties liable for costs 1
- Practice and procedure 1
- Security for costs 6
- Special costs 7
- Summary trial 1
- Unfounded allegations 3
- Courts 27
- Defamation 10
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- Elections 23
- Employment 1
- Environmental law 12
- Estoppel 10
- Expropriation 28
- Financial management 1
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- Gaming 1
- Highways & streets 9
- Human rights 7
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- Injunctions 54
- Insurance 11
- Interest 2
- Landlord & tenant 9
- Law profession 8
- Legislation 5
- Liability 40
-
Liability of municipality
158
- Abuse of public office 5
- Abuse of statutory authority 1
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- Building inspection 2
- Defamation 2
- Duty of care 1
- Failure to warn 2
- Highways and streets 10
- Negligence 40
- Nuisance 7
- Occupier’s liability 2
- Occupier's liability 39
- Occupiers’ liability 1
- Police 28
- Procedure 1
- Sidewalks 1
- Slip and fall 1
- Torts 2
- Unjust enrichment 4
- Limitation of actions 15
- Mortgages 1
- Motor vehicle offences 1
- Municipal councilors 1
- Municipal councils 39
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- Municipal law 8
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- Municipalities 1
- Native law 7
- Negligence 7
- Occupiers' liability 5
- Offences 1
- Official community plans 8
- Permits 5
- Powers 2
- Powers of municipality 10
-
Practice
290
- Actions 17
- Affidavits 3
- Amendment 1
- Appeals 74
- Class actions 11
- Commencement of proceedings 4
- Counterclaim 1
- Default judgment 1
- Discovery of documents 17
- Dismissal 1
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- Evidence 13
- Examination for discovery 4
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- Interlocutory motions 1
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- Jury trials 3
- Orders 5
- Parties 33
- Pleadings 40
- Preliminary point of law 1
- Reconsideration 1
- Service 1
- Settlement of action 5
- Stay of execution 1
- Stay of proceedings 1
- Subpoenas 1
- Summary trial 18
- Third party proceedings 7
- Trial 9
- Trial of issue 1
- Witnesses 1
- Writ of summons 2
- Privacy 7
- Property 8
- Property of municipality 1
- Public authorities 15
- Public utilities 2
- Real property 43
- Resources 14
- Societies 1
- Statutes 1
- Subdivisions 43
- Tax sales 4
- Taxation 71
- Torts 35
- Trusts 4
- Workers' compensation 1
- Zoning 214
-
Personal injury
11613
- Administrative law 5
- Animals 3
- Animals on roadway 1
- Arbitration 14
- Back 2
- Bankruptcy 9
- Carriers 32
- Charter of rights 9
- Choses in action 1
- Chronic pain 2
- Class actions 1
- Conflict of laws 38
- Constitutional law 4
- Consumer protection 1
- Contempt of court 1
- Contracts 2
-
Costs
1149
- Amount involved 54
- Appeals 1
- Appeals as to costs 22
- Assessment 54
- Conduct of counsel 25
- Conduct of parties 31
- Conduct ofo parties 1
- Cost of appeals 1
- Costs against non-parties 1
- Costs in any event of the cause 1
- Costs in the cause 1
- Costs of appeals 31
- Costs of motions 10
- Disburesements 2
- Disbursements 144
- Discretion of court 47
- Effect of contingency fee agreement 1
- Expert witnesses 1
- Fast track litigation 66
- Fast-track litigation 1
- Increased costs 28
- Multiple actions 1
- Nature of litigation 20
- Ofer to settle 1
- Offer to settle 341
- Offers to settle 1
- Orders as to costs 1
- Outcome of litigation 165
- Particular items 5
- Parties entitled to costs 3
- Parties liable for costs 10
- Payment into court 1
- Payment of costs 1
- Practice and procedure 17
- Procedural inefficiencies 3
- Security for costs 10
- Small claims proceedings 6
- Solicitor's personal liability for costs 3
- Special costs 26
- Taxation 1
- Unfounded allegations 6
- Courts 93
- Creditors' remedies 6
- Crown 83
- Damages 88
- Defamation 4
- Discovery 1
- Discovery of documents 1
- Duties & liability of employer 1
- Education 3
- Employment 9
- Equity 1
- Estoppel 16
- Evidence 1
- Fiduciaries 9
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- Guarantee & indemnity 5
- Highways & streets 7
- Human rights 3
- Injunctions 3
- Insurance 160
- Interest 23
- Intersections 1
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- Law profession 180
- Left turns 1
- Licensing and regulation 1
- Limitation of actions 132
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- Maintenance 1
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-
Medical malpractice
318
- Actions 1
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- General practitioners 54
- Gynaecologists 4
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- Hospitals 6
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- Interns 1
- Neurologists 5
- Neurosurgeons 7
- Nurses 17
- Obstetricians 21
- Obstetricians and gynaecologists 16
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- Opthamologists 1
- Oral and maxillofacial surgeons 5
- Orthopaedic surgeons 15
- Otolaryngologists 6
- Pathologists 1
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- Pediatricians 1
- Plastic surgeons 5
- Proceedings generally 17
- Psychiatrists 5
- Radiologists 5
- Surgeons 27
- Surgical assistants 1
- Urologists 3
- Uro-oncologists 1
- Wrongful birth 2
- Medicine 6
- Mental incompetence 6
- Mortgages 1
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Motor vehicle insurance
477
- Actions 15
- Collector vehicles 1
- Coverage for substitute vehicles 2
- Duties of insured 2
- Duties of insurer 1
- Exclusions 3
- Insurance generally 1
- Insurance monies 2
- Legislation 21
- Liability of insured 7
- Liability of insurer 84
- Liability of owner 2
- Mediation of disputes 2
- No fault benefits 193
- No-fault benefits 5
- Offences 1
- Overlapping coverage 2
- Recovery for loss of income 3
- Structured judgments 7
- Subrogation 2
- Unauthorized driver 1
- Underinsured motorist protection 5
- Underinsured motorists 9
- Unidenitified drivers 2
- Unidentified drivers 8
- Unidentified vehicles 1
- Uninsured motorists 11
- Unknown drivers 80
- Unlicensed vehicles 1
- Unqualified driver 3
- Motor vehicle lability 1
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Motor vehicle liability
974
- — animals on roadway 1
- Animals of roadway 1
- Animals on roadway 15
- Appeals 3
- Backing 12
- Bicycles 63
- Changing lanes 27
- Children 30
- Contributory negligence 26
- Controlled intersections 1
- Disabled vehicles 3
- Emergencies 8
- Emergency vehicles 9
- Excessive speed 5
- Highways 8
- Intersections 169
- Left turns 58
- Liability of owner 47
- Lntersections 1
- Mechanical failures 6
- Motorcycles 11
- No fault benefits 1
- Objects falling from vehicle 1
- Obstructed visibility 2
- Obstructions on roadway 9
- Oncoming vehicles 40
- Parked vehicles 8
- Parking 9
- Parking lots 5
- Passenger falling from vehicle 3
- Passing 30
- Pedestrians 154
- Police 2
- Police vehicles 2
- Proper lookout 10
- Public transit 12
- Racing 1
- Railway crossings 1
- Rear end collisions 48
- Rear-end collisions 2
- Recreational vehicles 3
- Right turns 1
- Single vehicle accident 1
- Single-vehicle accident 53
- Snow and ice 8
- Special considerations 2
- Turns 21
- U-turns 1
- Vehicle crossing roadway 1
- Vehicle entering roadway 35
- Vehicle repairs 1
- Motor vehicle offences 3
- Motor vehicles 3
- Municipal law 79
- Native law 3
- Neck and back 1
- Neck, back and shoulders 1
-
Negligence
292
- Air traffic control and related services 3
- Aircraft 1
- Airlines 1
- Animals 21
- Apportionment of liability 5
- Bars to damage claims 1
- Boating 4
- Building maintenance 2
- Care facilities 2
- Care providers 1
- Carriers 2
- Causation 38
- Children 9
- Commercial hosts 8
- Construction 1
- Contributory negligence 3
- Correctional facilities 1
- Damages 2
- Dangerous activities 2
- Defences 11
- Drinking establishments 2
- Duty of care 14
- Electrolysis 1
- Farm operations 1
- Fires 2
- Food poisoning 2
- Food products 2
- Foreseeability 5
- Grocery stores 1
- Grounds maintenance 2
- Group home operators 1
- Highway maintenance 12
- Hospitals 1
- Infliction of mental distress 2
- Joint and independent tortfeasors 10
- Joint and several tortfeasors 1
- Ladders 1
- Laser treatments 1
- Manufactured goods 2
- Negligent infliction of mental suffering 1
- Negligent misrepresentation 1
- Nervous shock 16
- Obstructions 1
- Occupiers' liability 1
- Oil slicks 1
- Paramedics 1
- Pedestrians 1
- Police 1
- Proof 1
- Proof of negligence 16
- Public officials 6
- Reflexologists 1
- Res ipsa loquitur 1
- Rescues 4
- Restaurants 1
- Retail stores 1
- Sale of alcohol 1
- Schools 6
- Sidewalks 2
- Ski instructors 1
- Social host liability 5
- Sports and recreation 30
- Standard of care 5
- Trail riding facilities 2
- Transport of goods 2
- Vehicle repair and maintenance 1
- Voluntary activities 1
-
Occupiers' liability
252
- Bridges 2
- Churches 1
- Commercial premises 100
- Construction sites 9
- Deep-sea terminals 1
- Defences 4
- Farms 4
- Hospital premises 1
- Independent contractors 1
- Legislation 1
- Lighting conditions 3
- Occupiers 7
- Outdoor premises 4
- Private roads 1
- Proceedings generally 2
- Public premises 20
- Recreation facilities 1
- Recreational premises 13
- Residential premises 34
- Rural premises 3
- Schools 6
- Semi-commercial premises 1
- Sidewalk 1
- Sidewalks 3
- Snow and ice 16
- Stairways 10
- Stairways and sills 1
- Utility rights of way and corridors 2
- Personal injury quantum 28
-
Practice
2886
- Actions 13
- Adding defendant 1
- Admissions 40
- Advance payments 16
- Advances 1
- Affidavits 7
- Appeals 231
- Bankruptcy proceedings 1
- Calculation of time 1
- Case planning conferences 7
- Chambers proceedings 9
- Class actions 198
- Default judgment 23
- Disclosure of documents 8
- Discontinuance 1
- Discovery 245
- Discovery of documents 345
- Dismissal for want of compliance with order 9
- Dismissal for want of compliance with rules 7
- Dismissal for want of prosecution 48
- Documents 1
- Evidence 288
- Examination for discovery 86
- Expedited litigation project 12
- Fast track litigation 36
- Fatal injury claims 5
- Fourth party proceedings 1
- Guardians ad litem 8
- Indigent status 1
- Infant judgments 1
- Infant settlements 38
- Infants 2
- Interest 1
- Interlocutory motions 1
- Interrogatories 10
- Intervenors 2
- Jury awards 107
- Jury trials 221
- Leave to appeal 1
- Mistrial 1
- Money in court 2
- No-evidence motions 3
- Notice of civil claim 1
- Orders 34
- Parties 134
- Physical examination and inspection 1
- Pleadings 117
- Preliminary point of law 3
- Preservation of property 2
- Pre-trial conferences 1
- Pre-trial examination of witnesses 13
- Service 1
- Service ex juris 1
- Settlement of action 50
- Small claims procedure 3
- Small claims proceedings 15
- Special case 1
- Stay of execution 1
- Stay of proceedings 7
- Subpoenas 1
- Summary judgment 11
- Summary trial 114
- Third party proceedings 44
- Time 4
- Transfer to provincial court 14
- Trial 195
- Trial management conferences 5
- Trial of issue 1
- Trials 1
- Use of transcript 1
- Venue 6
- Witnesses 24
- Writ of summons 40
- Privacy 3
- Professions 1
- Public authorities 85
- Quantum 2
- Quantum assessment 3
-
Quantum assessment
3659
- Aggravated damages 1
- Aggravation of pre-existing condition 144
- Ankle 13
- Ankle and back 1
- Ankles 2
- Appeals 71
- Apportionment of damages 3
- Arm 11
- Arm and hand 1
- Arm and shoulder 2
- Arm, hand 1
- Arm, hand and back 1
- Arms 1
- Arms, hips and legs 1
- Back 355
- Back and hip 28
- Back and knee 1
- Back and leg 1
- Back and neck 81
- Back and shoulder 9
- Back and shoulders 6
- Back land neck 1
- Back, hip and shoulder 1
- Back, neck and hip 3
- Back, neck and jaw 2
- Back, neck and shoulder 47
- Back, neck and shoulders 16
- Back, neck and wrist 1
- Back, neck, shoulder 1
- Back, neck, shoulder and hip 2
- Back, shoulder and arm 2
- Back, shoulder and hip 5
- Back, shoulder and neck 3
- Brain 199
- Breast 4
- Burns 3
- Causation 98
- Chest 3
- Chest and neck 2
- Chest, neck and shoulder 2
- Chronic pain 101
- Chronic pain and myofascial pain 2
- Clavicle 1
- Collateral benefits 10
- Dizziness 2
- Dystonia 1
- Elbow 10
- Elbows 1
- Elderly plaintiffs 6
- Evidence 1
- Eye 7
- Face 5
- Family compensation act 45
- Fees of public guardian and trustee 1
- Fibromyalgia 24
- Finger 2
- Foot 10
- Future care costs 27
- Future income loss 1
- Hand 8
- Hand and elbow 1
- Hand and wrist 1
- Hands 2
- Head 13
- Headaches 39
- Hearing 8
- Hip 30
- Hip and shoulder 1
- Hip, back and knee 1
- Hip, neck and shoulder 1
- Hips 6
- Internal injures 1
- Internal injuries 6
- Intersections 1
- In-trust awards 2
- Jaw 11
- Knee 66
- Knees 5
- Leg 16
- Leg and ankle 3
- Leg and arm 1
- Leg and knee 7
- Leg, hip and wrist 1
- Legs 1
- Loss of earning capacity 2
- Loss of enjoyment 2
- Loss of future earnings 110
- Loss of homemaking capacit 1
- Loss of homemaking capacity 3
- Loss of housekeeping capacity 1
- Loss of opportunity 5
- Loss of pension 1
- Loss of profit 2
- Loss of sick leave benefits 2
- Lower back 1
- Management fees 22
- Minor injuries 33
- Mitigation 10
- Multiple injuries 66
- Multiples injuries 1
- Myofascial pain 7
- Nausea vertigo syndrome 1
- Neck 118
- Neck and arm 2
- Neck and back 524
- Neck and hip 1
- Neck and jaw 3
- Neck and shoulder 49
- Neck and shoulders 48
- Neck, back and arm 2
- Neck, back and chest 3
- Neck, back and hip 2
- Neck, back and knee 1
- Neck, back and shoulder 143
- Neck, back and shoulders 194
- Neck, back and wrist 1
- Neck, back, and shoulder 1
- Neck, back, and shoulders 1
- Neck, back, shoulder 1
- Neck, back, shoulders 1
- Neck, shouder and back 1
- Neck, shoulder 3
- Neck, shoulder and arm 7
- Neck, shoulder and back 43
- Neck, shoulder and hip 2
- Neck, shoulder, and arm 1
- Neck, shoulder, and back 1
- Neck, shoulder, back 1
- Neck, shoulders and back 10
- Neuropathic pain 1
- Paraplegia 7
- Past and future income loss 11
- Past and future loss of earnings 3
- Past income loss 32
- Payment of judgment 2
- Pedestrians 1
- Pelvis 4
- Pentaplegia 1
- Post-traumatic stress disorder 14
- Principles 11
- Proof of damages 17
- Psychological factors 7
- Psychological injury 101
- Quadriplegia 6
- Ribs 7
- Scarring 3
- Sexual assault 36
- Shoulder 74
- Shoulder and ankle 1
- Shoulder and arm 2
- Shoulder and back 7
- Shoulder and knee 2
- Shoulder and neck 1
- Shoulder, knee and neck 1
- Shoulder, neck and back 11
- Shoulders 3
- Shoulders and neck 1
- Special damages 5
- Spinal cord, bladder 1
- Structured judgments 1
- Tax gross-up 13
- Teeth 2
- Thoracic outlet syndrome 13
- Thumb 1
- Urological dysfunction 2
- Vertigo 1
- Vestibular disorder 1
- Visual-vestibular disorder 2
- Voice 1
- Whiplash 170
- Wrist 20
- Restitution 1
- Solicitor's fees 2
- Statutes 10
- Taxation 1
-
Torts
226
- Abuse of public office 2
- Ancillary liability 2
- Assault 81
- Assault and battery 4
- Battery 17
- Conspiracy 3
- Damages 1
- False arrest and imprisonment 3
- Harassment 1
- Inducing breach of contract 1
- Invasion of privacy 5
- Joint and several liability 4
- Nuisance 1
- Products liability 14
- Sexual assault 74
- Vicarious liability 11
- Wrongful arrest 2
- Trusts 4
- Wills & estates 1
- Workers' compensation 140
-
Real property
8535
- Administration of estate 1
- Administrative law 63
- Administrative review 1
- Adverse possession 6
- Agency 13
- Agricultural land reserve 19
- Appeals 1
- Arbitration 57
- Banking 3
- Bankruptcy 26
- Bills of exchange 1
- Boundaries 21
- Builders' liens 202
- Building schemes 47
- Bylaws & resolutions 2
- Bylaws and resolutions 1
- Caveats 2
- Characterization of relationship 1
- Charter of rights 3
- Choses in action 4
- Civil resolution tribunal 1
-
Condominiums
450
- Actions 25
- Administration 34
- Appointment of administrator 2
- Arbitration 5
- Bylaws 62
- Bylaws and resolutions 5
- Civil resolution tribunal 45
- Common expenses 11
- Common facilities 3
- Common property 81
- Disclosure statements 9
- Fines and levies 18
- Judicial review 1
- Legislation 8
- Liens 9
- Maintenance and repair 2
- Maintenance fees 7
- Occupation rent 1
- Owners 6
- Prospectus 1
- Restrictive covenants 2
- Statutory holdbacks 1
- Strata corporations 66
- Strata councils 16
- Strata plans 13
- Unit entitlement 8
- Voting 4
- Conflict of laws 12
- Constitutional law 16
- Construction law 112
- Constructive trusts 1
- Contempt 1
- Contempt of court 28
- Contract 1
-
Contracts
197
- Breach 40
- Breach of duty 1
- Certainty of terms 3
- Collateral contracts 1
- Conditions precedent 2
- Discharge 7
- Enforcement 5
- Formation 38
- Interpretation 36
- Misrepresentation 2
- Mistake 3
- Mortgages 1
- Performance 4
- Privity 1
- Proof 2
- Rectification 4
- Releases 2
- Remedies 11
- Termination 4
- Terms 1
- Unjust enrichment 1
- Validity 28
- Co-operative housing 1
- Co-ownership 110
- Corporations 49
-
Costs
468
- Administrative proceedings 1
- Amount involved 11
- Appeals 12
- Appeals as to costs 5
- Assessment 8
- Conduct of parties 32
- Contractual provisions 5
- Costs against non-parties 2
- Costs of appeal 1
- Costs of appeals 39
- Costs of motions 11
- Disbursements 1
- Discretion of court 10
- Fast track litigation 3
- Increased costs 23
- Matrimonial proceedings 2
- Nature of litigation 13
- Offer to settle 69
- Orders as to costs 4
- Outcome of litigation 97
- Parties entitled to costs 4
- Parties liable for costs 1
- Practice and procedure 3
- Procedural inefficiencies 2
- Recovery 1
- Security for costs 20
- Small claims proceedings 2
- Special costs 79
- Unfounded allegations 5
- Courts 81
- Creditors' remedies 20
- Creditors’ remedies 1
- Crown 29
- Damages 16
- Defamation 5
- Development permits 1
- Director of civil forfeiture 1
- Easement 1
-
Easements
185
- Cancellation 23
- Cancellation or modification 15
- Creation 14
- Damages 1
- Enforcement 9
- Equitable easements 11
- Extent of easement 3
- Interference with use 7
- Interpretation 52
- Location 1
- Modification 5
- Nature and incidents 10
- Rectification 2
- Remedies 1
- Termination 1
- Unregistered easements 3
- Use by licensees 1
- Validity 8
- Water 3
- Employment 1
- Encroachments 34
- Environmental law 58
- Equity 14
- Estoppel 64
- Expropriation 112
- Family law 6
- Fiduciaries 12
- Fixtures 9
- Foreign judgments 1
- Fraudulent transactions 73
- Gifts 26
- Guarantee & indemnity 31
- Heritage conservation 2
- Highways 7
- Highways & streets 18
- Housing co-operatives 8
- Human rights 7
- Indefeasibility of title 14
- Injunctions 157
- Insurance 30
- Intellectual property 1
- Interest 26
- Interim injunctions 1
- Landlord & tenant 773
- Landlord &tenant 1
- Lateral support 6
- Law profession 80
- Legislation 8
- Licences 5
- Limitation of actions 51
- Lis pedens 1
- Lis pendens 219
- Mining 1
- Misrepresentation 1
- Mortgage 1
-
Mortgages
655
- Assignment of rents 2
- Cancellation 1
- Contracts 62
- Costs 2
- Discharge 10
- Effect of restraint orders under criminal legislation 1
- Equitable mortgages 11
- Foreclosure 482
- Liability of covenantor 8
- Mortgage broker 1
- Mortgage brokers 13
- Order nisi 1
- Priorities 31
- Proceedings generally 2
- Redemption 8
- Registration 3
- Remedies generally 1
- Repayment 5
- Sale 3
- Validity 7
- Municipal law 107
-
Municipalities
384
- Actions 3
- Building regulation 61
- Business licences 1
- Business regulation 5
- Bylaws and resolutions 76
- Contracts 6
- Development cost charges 3
- Development permits 12
- Highways and streets 2
- Liability 22
- Liability of municipality 4
- Municipal councils 7
- Municipal services 8
- Official community plans 4
- Powers 4
- Property 8
- Subdivisions 26
- Tax sales 3
- Zoning 129
- Native law 171
- Natural resources 1
- Negligence 40
- Occupiers' liability 16
- Partition & sale 54
- Partition and sale 40
- Partnerships 30
- Plans 4
-
Practice
1150
- Actions 7
- Adjournment 1
- Admissions 6
- Affidavits 6
- Amendment 1
- Appeals 271
- Chambers proceedings 5
- Class actions 25
- Commencement of proceedings 21
- Default judgment 23
- Disclosure of documents 7
- Discovery 1
- Discovery of documents 22
- Dismissal 3
- Dismissal for want of prosecution 53
- Evidence 30
- Examination for discovery 16
- Fast track litigation 1
- Interlocutory motions 2
- Interpleader 1
- Interrogatories 2
- Jury trials 1
- Leave to appeal 1
- Mining 1
- Money in court 1
- No-evidence motions 2
- Orders 52
- Parties 103
- Physical examination and inspection 3
- Pleadings 180
- Preliminary point of law 3
- Preservation of property 11
- Privilege 1
- Proceedings 1
- Reconsideration 1
- References and inquiries 1
- Representation agreements 1
- Representative proceedings 2
- Sales by court 1
- Service 5
- Settlement of action 15
- Small claims proceedings 8
- Special case 3
- Stay of execution 4
- Stay of proceedings 8
- Striking out 1
- Subpoenas 1
- Summary judgement 1
- Summary judgment 21
- Summary trial 121
- Third party proceedings 29
- Time 2
- Trial 54
- Trials 1
- Venue 1
- Witnesses 2
- Writ of summons 3
- Privacy 4
- Professions 26
- Public authorities 11
- Public parks 1
- Public utilities 2
- Real property 35
- Real property assessment 14
- Receivers 31
- Recovery of land 7
- Registration of interests 83
- Registration of interests in land 1
- Residential tenancies 3
- Resources 87
- Restitution 46
- Restrictive covenants 46
- Riparian rights 3
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Sale of land
766
- Agreements for sale 12
- Building inspectors 4
- Completion of contract 82
- Contract 178
- Contractors 3
- Contracts 7
- Contractual interest 1
- Damages 1
- Developers 26
- Misrepresentation 118
- Options to purchase 41
- Performance of conditions 1
- Real estate agents 98
- Real estate salespersons 1
- Remedies 150
- Right of first refusal 9
- Specific performance 1
- Vendor’s title obligations 3
- Vendor's title obligations 12
- Warranties 14
- Societies 5
- Statutory right of way 10
- Strata corporations 2
- Surveys 2
- Taxation 291
- Tort 1
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Torts
183
- Abuse of process 1
- Abuse of public office 1
- Abuse of statutory authority 1
- Breach of confidence 1
- Conspiracy 3
- Conversion 9
- Deceit 8
- Fraud 1
- Fraudulent misrepresentation 3
- Fraudulent preferences 1
- Inducing breach of contract 1
- Injurious falsehood 1
- Interference with contractual relations 1
- Invasion of privacy 1
- Joint and several liability 2
- Misfeasance in public office 1
- Negligence 1
- Nuisance 51
- Trespass 4
- Trespass to land 91
- Trial 2
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Trusts
93
- Administration of trust 2
- Beneficiaries 4
- Breach of trust 5
- Charitable trusts 3
- Constructive trusts 9
- Creation 3
- Express trust 1
- Express trusts 17
- Express, resulting and constructive trusts 2
- Implied trusts 1
- Purpose trusts 1
- Remedies generally 3
- Resulting trust 1
- Resulting trusts 36
- Termination 1
- Trustees 3
- Unjust enrichment 1
- Wills & estates 3
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Wills & estates
2503
- Actions 1
-
Administration of estate
176
- Actions 43
- Collection of assets 2
- Contracts binding on estate 2
- Debts owed by estate 2
- Debts owed to estate 6
- Directions 11
- Distribution 15
- Intestate succession 1
- Legal fees 3
- Legislation 4
- Legislation affecting estate 1
- Non-contentious estates 1
- Obligations binding on estate 8
- Obligations of estate 1
- Passing of accounts 23
- Probate 19
- Property of estate 11
- Related matters 4
- Revocation of grant 4
- Sale of assets 1
- Sale of property 4
- Tax considerations 2
- Agency 22
- Banking 3
- Bankruptcy 3
- Bills of exchange 1
- Charter of rights 6
- Conflict of laws 26
- Contracts 25
- Corporations 5
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Costs
215
- Advance costs 2
- Appeals 2
- Appeals as to costs 3
- Assessment 7
- Conduct of parties 17
- Conduct of paties 1
- Costs of appeals 20
- Costs of motions 3
- Discretion of court 13
- Increased costs 2
- Nature of litigation 5
- Offer to settle 24
- Outcome of litigation 49
- Parties entitled to costs 1
- Parties liable for costs 4
- Practice and procedure 1
- Procedural inefficiencies 1
- Procedure 1
- Prospective costs 3
- Security for costs 3
- Special costs 38
- Tariff of costs 1
- Unfounded allegations 1
- Courts 26
- Crown 1
- Damages 3
- Debts owed to estate 1
- Defamation 1
- Disclosure of documents 1
- Equity 2
- Estoppel 19
- Executors 1
- Executors & administrators 125
- Executors and administrators 50
- Family law 13
- Fiduciaries 9
- Fraudulent transactions 9
- Gifts 109
- Injunctions 13
- Insurance 6
- Interest 1
- Interpretation 1
- Intestate succession 48
- Landlord & tenant 1
- Law profession 67
- Legislation 6
- Liability of estate 1
- Limitation of actions 17
- Lis pendens 1
- Mental incapacity 1
- Mental incompetence 196
- Mortgages 3
- Native law 4
- Passing of accounts 1
- Pensions 34
- Personal property 4
-
Practice
319
- Accounting 1
- Actions 2
- Affidavits 1
- Appeals 55
- Chambers proceedings 3
- Class actions 6
- Commencement of proceedings 10
- Default judgment 4
- Disclosure 1
- Disclosure of documents 1
- Discovery 5
- Discovery of documents 33
- Dismissal for want of compliance with rules 1
- Dismissal for want of prosecution 13
- Evidence 8
- Examination for discovery 5
- Guardians ad litem 4
- Infant settlements 1
- Interest 1
- Interlocutory motions 1
- Interpleader 2
- Interrogatories 1
- Jury trials 1
- Leave to appeal 1
- Orders 17
- Parties 20
- Partition and sale 1
- Pleadings 49
- Preservation of property 3
- Sales by court 1
- Settlement of action 22
- Special case 1
- Stay of proceedings 1
- Summary judgment 4
- Summary trial 23
- Trial 12
- Witnesses 1
- Writ of summons 3
- Professions 4
- Public authorities 6
- Public health & welfare 3
- Real property 29
- Receivers 1
- Removal 1
- Restitution 46
- Sale of land 2
- Settlement of action 1
- Taxation 2
- Torts 6
-
Trusts
266
- Administration of trust 21
- Advisors to the trust 1
- Beneficiaries 5
- Breach of trust 1
- Charitable trusts 13
- Constructive trusts 42
- Creation 3
- Disclaimer 2
- Express trusts 44
- Express, resulting and constructive trusts 5
- Implied trusts 1
- Judicial imposition of trust 2
- Legislation 1
- Legislation affecting trusts 1
- Nature and effect 1
- Purpose trusts 2
- Rectification 1
- Remedies generally 4
- Resulting trusts 41
- Secret trusts 8
- Solicitors' trust accounts 1
- Statutory trusts 6
- Termination 6
- Trust property 2
- Trustees 52
- Validity 1
- Wills 503
- Wills & estates 14
- Wills interpretation 10
- Wills variation 30
Cases in Characterization of relationship Reset [x]
DeFrancesco v. Balla
Docket Number:
2024 BCSC 367, Nanaimo S87735
Judgment Date:
March 1, 2024
Judge(s):
Veenstra J.