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A Cornucopia of Conflicts Goodies
The decision of Mr. Justice Grauer in Lailey v. International Student Volunteers, Inc., 2008 BCSC 1344 provides a cornucopia of interesting conflict of laws points dealing with rebuttal of CJaPTA real… more →
Renvoi: Lex Situs Conflictus
A Cornucopia of Conflicts Goodies
Seva wrote 1 year ago: The decision of Mr. Justice Grauer in Lailey v. International Student Volunteers, Inc., 2008 BCSC 13 … more →
Financial Burden Does Not Equate to Unfairness (in Not Assuming Jurisdiction)
Seva wrote 1 year ago: Because of the vagaries of QuickLaw, the case of Pavacic v. Nicely Estate, on which I had previously … more →
Minimal Evidentiary Burden on Defendants Disputing Jurisdiction
Seva wrote 1 year ago: It is well-accepted, particularly in BC, that a plaintiff only needs to adduce affidavit evidence es … more →
Attornment, Forum Non Conveniens and Corrupt Courts
Seva wrote 1 year ago: Once again, the life of a soon-to-be lawyer takes hold and I find myself with little time to post, e … more →
Puppy Law
Seva wrote 1 year ago: Sorry for the prolonged absence, I’ve been busy with a couple projects and had no time (or more corr … more →
"Cougar Ace" - Jurisdiction for Federal Matters
Seva wrote 1 year ago: Thus far, posts on this blawg have only discussed conflicts decisions from provincial courts. In a c … more →
Contract-Specific RaSC Factors (in addition to Muscutt)
Seva wrote 1 year ago: I am quite far behind the 8-ball on this one, but since I only read about it today in another case I … more →
Muscutt as part of BC’s CJPTA presumptions?
Seva wrote 1 year ago: It’s a good thing I wasn’t deceived by the headnotes to Stanway v. Wyeth Canada Inc., 2008 BCSC 847; … more →
Be Careful Where You Send Things
Seva wrote 1 year ago: The Alberta case of Warren v. ABC Wilderness Adventures Ltd., 2008 ABQB 258 confirms that mailing an … more →
Damages (Contract or Tort) = Real and Substantial Connection
Seva wrote 1 year ago: Irrespective of whether an action is in contract or in tort, damages suffered in the province prima … more →
A Multitude of Real and Substantial Connections
Seva wrote 1 year ago: It’s not a novel point, but always nice to have an additional authority for the argument that jurisd … more →
Can a Plaintiff Be Reasonably Expected to Know Conflicts Rules?
Seva wrote 1 year ago: In the context of the “unfairness to the plaintiff” factor from the Muscutt test for real and substa … more →
Crookes on Presumed Publication
Seva wrote 1 year ago: In a several previous posts I discussed recent Canadian and U.S. cases dealing with cross-jurisdicti … more →
The Right – Left Hand Dichotomy and Economic Tort’s Lex Loci Delicti
Seva wrote 1 year ago: Does territorial competence over a one branch of a company necessarily allow an action over employee … more →
Manitoba and Muscutt and Forum Selection Clauses
Seva wrote 1 year ago: The first decision that came to my attention from the Manitoba Court of Queen’s Bench in Commonwealt … more →
Retroactive Jurisdictional Rules and Inter-jurisdictional Trusts
Seva wrote 1 year ago: As the title says, the recent decision of BCSC in Rakunas v. SAL, 2008 BCSC 444, briefly addresses b … more →
The Short(er) Arm of Florida’s Defamation Law
Seva wrote 1 year ago: On the heals of the yesterday’s post about a recent B.C. case on cross-border defamation, my daily B … more →
Defamed in B.C.
Seva wrote 1 year ago: A very quick note today about TimberWest Forest Corp. v. United Steel Workers, decided this week by … more →
Conveniens Burdens
Seva wrote 1 year ago: I thank Mr. Pribetic for bringing two Ontario conflict of laws decisions to my attention. These will … more →
