SOME TYPE OF CASES WE HAVE HANDLED FOR OUR CLIENTS
(We have not been intimidated by very experienced and large big name law firms, and have won significant cases against such large law firms.)
Our client sold his residence to two individuals under a written agreement which provided the individuals immediate possession with a delayed closing date. The purchasers’ intention was to gut the property and to substantially renovate it. They gutted the property but then did not close the transaction and moved out leaving our client to rebuild it at an enormous cost.
We have sued the purchasers and the real estate agent for damages.
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Our client entered into a purchase agreement to purchase a residential property. The vendor then refused to close the transaction. We sued the vendor and asked for a specific performance order which was granted, and the vendor was ordered to sell the property to our client along with costs.
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Our client had filed for bankruptcy, and was denied a car salesmen license on various grounds. We appealed the decision and obtained an order requiring the salesman license to be issued to our client.
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Our client purchased two insurance policies, one for life and one for critical care. After suffering heart attack. When our client applied to be paid $75,000.00 on his critical insurance policy, the company cancelled both of his policies on grounds that our client was not eligible for insurance because he had high blood pressure and diabetes and had committed misrepresentation during the application process.
We sued the company and after a very hard fought case, the insurance company caved in and restored the life insurance policy, paid the critical policy amount, interest and legal costs.
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Our client’s boyfriend signed her signature and obtained American Express Credit card, rang up lots of charges and disappeared. Amex sued our client for amounts charged to her credit card. We defended our client and succeeded in having the case dismissed with costs.
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Two persons entered into a trust agreement, with one person being a 1/3 owner and the other 2/3 owner. Our client was 2/3 owner. After selling the property (which was in our client's name) we paid 1/3 of the proceeds to the 1/3 beneficial owner. The two had serious disputes about the accounting of rental income and expenses, and the 1/3 beneficial owner sued both us and our client. The trial judge made an order against us to pay damages to the 1/3 beneficial owner. We appealed and the Ontario Court of Appeal allowed our appeal, reversed the damage and costs award, and the plaintiff was ordered to pay us significant costs of the trial and appeal.
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Our client bought a franchise business. After running it for about 6 months, the client returned the key to the franchisor. We have now sued the franchisor under the Arthur Wishart Act (Franchise Disclosure) for damages in the amount of about $250,000.00. The case is ongoing.
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Our client could not pay his mortgage payments. The lender, on our client’s default, commenced power of sale proceedings and charged grossly excessive charges and obtained a default judgment. The mortgage terms signed by our client allowed the lender to: increase interest from 13.99% to 18% if my client defaulted on the mortgage; charge $2,0000.00 penalty on default; charge $300.00 for every NSF, and other similar charges.
Our firm convinced the court to set aside the excessive charges, and ordered the lender to return all of the improper charges, including increased interest and other amounts charged as charges on default, and also ordered the lender to pay $30,000.00 in punitive damages, as well costs on a full indemnity payments.
The lender is currently seeking to set aside the judgement.
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Our client was volunteering setting up a function at his temple and rented a van to pick up rental chairs, etc. While travelling around, he came across a special one-day deal at Bay Stores for a 50" television. He paid for the TV by his cheque (on Saturday) and to save delivery charges, he loaded the TV on his van. While dropping off the TV at his home, his helper also felt like buying a TV and asked the driver if he could pay for another set by his cheque and that he would pay him in cash at the end of the day. The driver thought that he would deposit the monies into the bank account by Monday. He charged the TV sets on his Bay card and at the same time paid his cheque as payment on his bay card. .
While picking up the second TV set, the store clerk became suspicious and felt that the men were committing fraud, and she contacted the driver’s bank to confirm if his account had monies to pay fro the two cheques. He did not have any monies in the bank. He was charged with two counts of false pretense and the police asked him to return the first TV set he had taken hime.
We defended him and the charges were ultimately dismissed.
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Our client is currently facing 110 counts of tax fraud. We are defending him and once the case is over, we will post details of the charges and the result at his trial.
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Our client, owner of a business, was charged with sexual assault (on his client). We defended our client and the charges dismissed were dismissed.
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Our client signed a lease and the landlord, realizing that it made an error in signing the lease, refused to deliver possession of the premises to my client. After suing the landlord for specific performance, the landlord paid generous damages to our client.
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Our client rented a parking lot to a very large company. The company moved in and started operating the parking lot, but then after a few months terminated the lease on various grounds. Initially our client was represented by another lawyer, but then asked us to act for him. After a while, the tenant paid significant damages to our client.
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Our client, a wife and a mother, fought hard for child support (among other claims). The husband owned a business and declared income of $29,000.00 and provided an audited financial statement to prove his income. We fought the case and at trial cross-examined the auditor. Although the auditor tried his best to support his conclusion that the husband's income was in fact $29,000.00, we convinced the judge that the husband's income was $70,000.00. The judge discounted the auditor's evidence and found that the husband's income was $70,000.00 and ordered support accordingly.
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Our client's husband hid his assets and for almost eight years we fought continuously to discover his assets. After a trial of the issues, the court found that the husband's net assets were almost six times more than what he had declared in his first sworn financial statement. The husband who was fighting very hard to reduce his income and assets ended up paying us $90,000.00 in costs in addition to paying equalization payment (initially his position was that our client to pay him equalization payment) and significant child support to our client.
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(We have not been intimidated by very experienced and large big name law firms, and have won significant cases against such large law firms.)
Our client sold his residence to two individuals under a written agreement which provided the individuals immediate possession with a delayed closing date. The purchasers’ intention was to gut the property and to substantially renovate it. They gutted the property but then did not close the transaction and moved out leaving our client to rebuild it at an enormous cost.
We have sued the purchasers and the real estate agent for damages.
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Our client entered into a purchase agreement to purchase a residential property. The vendor then refused to close the transaction. We sued the vendor and asked for a specific performance order which was granted, and the vendor was ordered to sell the property to our client along with costs.
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Our client had filed for bankruptcy, and was denied a car salesmen license on various grounds. We appealed the decision and obtained an order requiring the salesman license to be issued to our client.
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Our client purchased two insurance policies, one for life and one for critical care. After suffering heart attack. When our client applied to be paid $75,000.00 on his critical insurance policy, the company cancelled both of his policies on grounds that our client was not eligible for insurance because he had high blood pressure and diabetes and had committed misrepresentation during the application process.
We sued the company and after a very hard fought case, the insurance company caved in and restored the life insurance policy, paid the critical policy amount, interest and legal costs.
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Our client’s boyfriend signed her signature and obtained American Express Credit card, rang up lots of charges and disappeared. Amex sued our client for amounts charged to her credit card. We defended our client and succeeded in having the case dismissed with costs.
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Two persons entered into a trust agreement, with one person being a 1/3 owner and the other 2/3 owner. Our client was 2/3 owner. After selling the property (which was in our client's name) we paid 1/3 of the proceeds to the 1/3 beneficial owner. The two had serious disputes about the accounting of rental income and expenses, and the 1/3 beneficial owner sued both us and our client. The trial judge made an order against us to pay damages to the 1/3 beneficial owner. We appealed and the Ontario Court of Appeal allowed our appeal, reversed the damage and costs award, and the plaintiff was ordered to pay us significant costs of the trial and appeal.
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Our client bought a franchise business. After running it for about 6 months, the client returned the key to the franchisor. We have now sued the franchisor under the Arthur Wishart Act (Franchise Disclosure) for damages in the amount of about $250,000.00. The case is ongoing.
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Our client could not pay his mortgage payments. The lender, on our client’s default, commenced power of sale proceedings and charged grossly excessive charges and obtained a default judgment. The mortgage terms signed by our client allowed the lender to: increase interest from 13.99% to 18% if my client defaulted on the mortgage; charge $2,0000.00 penalty on default; charge $300.00 for every NSF, and other similar charges.
Our firm convinced the court to set aside the excessive charges, and ordered the lender to return all of the improper charges, including increased interest and other amounts charged as charges on default, and also ordered the lender to pay $30,000.00 in punitive damages, as well costs on a full indemnity payments.
The lender is currently seeking to set aside the judgement.
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Our client was volunteering setting up a function at his temple and rented a van to pick up rental chairs, etc. While travelling around, he came across a special one-day deal at Bay Stores for a 50" television. He paid for the TV by his cheque (on Saturday) and to save delivery charges, he loaded the TV on his van. While dropping off the TV at his home, his helper also felt like buying a TV and asked the driver if he could pay for another set by his cheque and that he would pay him in cash at the end of the day. The driver thought that he would deposit the monies into the bank account by Monday. He charged the TV sets on his Bay card and at the same time paid his cheque as payment on his bay card. .
While picking up the second TV set, the store clerk became suspicious and felt that the men were committing fraud, and she contacted the driver’s bank to confirm if his account had monies to pay fro the two cheques. He did not have any monies in the bank. He was charged with two counts of false pretense and the police asked him to return the first TV set he had taken hime.
We defended him and the charges were ultimately dismissed.
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Our client is currently facing 110 counts of tax fraud. We are defending him and once the case is over, we will post details of the charges and the result at his trial.
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Our client, owner of a business, was charged with sexual assault (on his client). We defended our client and the charges dismissed were dismissed.
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Our client signed a lease and the landlord, realizing that it made an error in signing the lease, refused to deliver possession of the premises to my client. After suing the landlord for specific performance, the landlord paid generous damages to our client.
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Our client rented a parking lot to a very large company. The company moved in and started operating the parking lot, but then after a few months terminated the lease on various grounds. Initially our client was represented by another lawyer, but then asked us to act for him. After a while, the tenant paid significant damages to our client.
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Our client, a wife and a mother, fought hard for child support (among other claims). The husband owned a business and declared income of $29,000.00 and provided an audited financial statement to prove his income. We fought the case and at trial cross-examined the auditor. Although the auditor tried his best to support his conclusion that the husband's income was in fact $29,000.00, we convinced the judge that the husband's income was $70,000.00. The judge discounted the auditor's evidence and found that the husband's income was $70,000.00 and ordered support accordingly.
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Our client's husband hid his assets and for almost eight years we fought continuously to discover his assets. After a trial of the issues, the court found that the husband's net assets were almost six times more than what he had declared in his first sworn financial statement. The husband who was fighting very hard to reduce his income and assets ended up paying us $90,000.00 in costs in addition to paying equalization payment (initially his position was that our client to pay him equalization payment) and significant child support to our client.
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