This Month in Nova Scotia Family Law – October 2022
Our NS Family Law team provides summaries of recent cases which have appeared in the Nova Scotia Supreme Court and the Nova Scotia Court of Appeal. Here are the cases from October 2022.
This Month in Nova Scotia Family Law – July 2022
Our NS Family Law team provides summaries of recent cases which have appeared in the Nova Scotia Supreme Court and the Nova Scotia Court of Appeal.
This Month in Family Law – June 2022
Our NS Family Law team provides summaries of recent cases which have appeared in the Nova Scotia Supreme Court and the Nova Scotia Court of Appeal.
This Month in Nova Scotia Family Law – February 2022
Our NS Family Law team provides summaries of recent cases which have appeared in the Nova Scotia Supreme Court and the Nova Scotia Court of Appeal.
This Month in NS Family Law – September 2021
Wolfson v Wolfson, 2021 NSSC 260 Justice Forgeron Issues: Unequal division of assets | Matrimonial property The couple was married for 12 years and have two children. Mr. Wolfson owns shares in 12 companies. The companies own and manage several rental properties. Mr. Wolfson sought to have the shares classified as business assets to exclude […]
This Month in NS Family Law – March 2021
Our NS Family Law team provides summaries of recent cases which have appeared in the Nova Scotia Supreme Court and the Nova Scotia Court of Appeal.
New Brunswick Court of Appeal Limits Appellate Intervention in Motion...
In Babin v. C.J.M. Dieppe Investments Ltd. and TG 378 Gauvin Ltd., 2019 NBCA 44, the New Brunswick Court of Appeal made clear that it will not interfere lightly with a motion judge’s discretionary decision to grant partial summary judgment, particularly where a decision on the merits is correct in law. The Court of Appeal […]
Rule 22 Motions: No Discovery? No Problem!
In Linda Trevors v. Anne Doucet, Lea Allard, Enterprise Rent-A-Car Canada Company, and Co-operators General Insurance,1 (hereinafter “Trevors v. Doucet”) the moving party applied for summary judgment early in the proceeding. Discovery had not yet occurred. The applicants were successful on the motion despite allegations it was premature. Background On May 16, 2015, a head […]
Case Commentary: Does the rule against “double-dipping” apply to a...
As the Honourable Madam Justice Newbury states in the opening paragraphs of the decision in Parrett v. Parrett, 2016 BCCA 151, the facts of this case are “unremarkable.”
Fraud of Homecare Administrator Survives Bankruptcy Discharge
Over the course of two years, a retirement home administrator by the name of Melissa Gibson-Heath stole $229,000 from an elderly resident of the retirement home where she worked, the Fairfield Manor East.