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 had two jobs. She was laid off from one job and the EI started paying her EI benefits and then EI set her up in a training job and continued paying her EI benefits. Afterwards, our client quit her 2nd job and when EI discovered that she had quit her job, EI cancelled paying her EI benefits and demanded the return of all benefits previously paid to her on the grounds that under EL law if an employee loses her job as a result of her own wrongdoing or quits her employment then she is not entitled to any benefits.
We fought against the EI to require it to continue paying her the EI benefits and to cancel their demand for repayment of EI paid to her. We lost the case at the Board of Referees, appealed to the Federal Court (Umpire) and our appeal was allowed, but the case was sent back to the Board of Referees, who at the second hearing ruled in our client’s favour.
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Our elderly (80 years old) client got injured in an elevator. Because she was not working the insurance company offered to pay her just $30,000.00 in damages. After three years of fighting, the insurance company paid $135,000.00 in damages.
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Our client entered into a common-law relationship. He then bought a house and placed both of their names on title. He paid for most of the monies to purchase it and paid the mortgage for the house. She paid for a few upgrades A short time later the parties separated but continued to live in the house, he in the basement and she upstairs. Over three years later, his spouse demanded that he pay her $2,000.00 a month in spousal support and one-half of the value of the house. He earned about $100,000.00, while she was on disability payments. She had contributed about $16,000.00 towards the house.
We fought the case and even though she was on title, the court ordered her to vacate the premises after ordering name to be removed from title upon her being $18,000.00, and dismissed her spousal support claim.
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Our client bought a business. The vendor misrepresented sales revenues of the business and we sued the vendors for damages. The vendors ultimately settled with our client and paid some damages.
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Our client was fired after working 26 years as a hairdresser. She settled the case for about $3,000.00 and also signed a release releasing her employer of all claims. Despite the agreement to settle the case, we sued the employer and after about three years of delay we obtained damages of $135,000.00 for our client.
Our client was traveling to Cuba, buying Cuban cigars and then sold them in his store. The Cuban government’s arm that produced and marketed the cigars along with their Canadian distributor sued our client (and seven other similar stores) for damages and an injunction to prevent him (them) from purchasing the cigars and reselling in his (their) stores.
We fought the case in the Federal Court Trial Division, brought a motion for Summary Judgement. While our case was being prepared for argument, the rest of the cases were put on hold. After three days of arguments, the court ruled in our client’s favour and also expunged the trade marks from the registry. They appealed the case to the Federal Court of Appeal where the case was argued for one and one-half day, after which the court dismissed their appeal, granted us costs. Thereafter all other cases were settled by them and they also paid costs to our client and to the other defendants.
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Our client entered into an agreement to purchase a home. Initially the purchase agreement was conditional on obtaining financing. Financing did not come through. Later on, our client’s mortgage broker informed the real estate agent that he had obtained approval of financing. The agent made a new offer to purchase without including a financing condition. When the bank obtained an appraisal of the property, the bank offered to advance mortgage for 75% of the appraised value, not enough for our client to close the transaction. The vendor sued our client and won. Our client lost all of his deposit. We thereafter sued the real estate agent and the court ordered the agent to pay damages and costs to our client. The agent appealed to the Court of Appeal, but he lost the appeal with costs payable to us.
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TD Bank damaged my client’s credit rating by wrongfully reporting that my client wrote cheques when he did not have money in his account. Although my client showed that the bank made an error in his account, they ignored his request to correct his credit rating. We sued the bank and obtained an order for damages with an order requiring the bank to correct his credit rating.
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WE HAVE HAD FIVE CASES ON SIMILAR THEMES AS THIS CASE:
Our client was sued for misrepresentation. He had invested his own monies in a high risk investment and then recommended his friends to invest as well. Later on, the investments turned out to be fraud. Our client’s friend sued our client on various grounds. Three of the five cases have been dismissed with costs payable to my clients. One case has been withdrawn by the plaintiff but without any costs. One case is still outstanding, and awaiting pre-trial and possibly trial.
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Our client was engaged to marry a person. After spending a lot of money and time for preparing for the big day, her fiancee asked her to sign a one-sided pre-nuptial agreement which was essentially very unfair to my client. The guests had already started arriving and in expectation of the marriage, the fiancé had placed a house in her name with a mortgage on the property.
Our client broke the engagement and walked away from the guy suffering a lot of loss. The guy brought an action seeking the return of all his gifts and the return of the house to him as he had fully paid for all the payments for the house. The client was represented by another lawyer and he recommended settling the case at a nominal amount to be paid. We took over the case and sought damages and after a bitter dispute, we obtained a very generous settlement amount plus costs for our client.
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Our client, a doctor, placed an offer to purchase a residential property which he wanted to convert into a medical clinic. He could not raise sufficient financing and aborted the transaction. Unfortunately, the agent failed to make the agreement conditional on obtaining financing. The vendor sued our client for over $300,000.0 0 for damages. We cross-claimed the action against the real estate company for indemnity.
The real estate company paid the damages to the vendor instead of my client paying any damages, and they also paid my client’s legal fees.
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Our client went into a business with another person. Both operated a restaurant under a corporation without any formalities (such as preparing Minute Books, etc.). The business was not successful. They placed it up for sale at $350,000.00 then kept reducing the price until they agreed to sell it at $56,000.00. They did not have a lawyer draw up any documents and one shareholder signed (with the other's verbal consent) the few documents to sell the business. The other shareholder has now sued our client seeking damages for selling the business without the other's signatures. The case is ongoing.
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Our client has been appointed as his late father's executor. His late father was a shareholder with his brother who managed the financial part of the business. The executor has discovered that his uncle has misappropriated hundreds of thousands of dollars from the business and is suing his uncle for damages. His uncle has turned around and sued the executor for a few hundred thousand dollars for rent alleging that the executor had rented the business premises when he placed his dead inventory at the warehouse owned by his late father and uncle. The family case has become ugly, and there are a number of important issues raised in the case. The case is ongoing.
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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 had two jobs. She was laid off from one job and the EI started paying her EI benefits and then EI set her up in a training job and continued paying her EI benefits. Afterwards, our client quit her 2nd job and when EI discovered that she had quit her job, EI cancelled paying her EI benefits and demanded the return of all benefits previously paid to her on the grounds that under EL law if an employee loses her job as a result of her own wrongdoing or quits her employment then she is not entitled to any benefits.
We fought against the EI to require it to continue paying her the EI benefits and to cancel their demand for repayment of EI paid to her. We lost the case at the Board of Referees, appealed to the Federal Court (Umpire) and our appeal was allowed, but the case was sent back to the Board of Referees, who at the second hearing ruled in our client’s favour.
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Our elderly (80 years old) client got injured in an elevator. Because she was not working the insurance company offered to pay her just $30,000.00 in damages. After three years of fighting, the insurance company paid $135,000.00 in damages.
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Our client entered into a common-law relationship. He then bought a house and placed both of their names on title. He paid for most of the monies to purchase it and paid the mortgage for the house. She paid for a few upgrades A short time later the parties separated but continued to live in the house, he in the basement and she upstairs. Over three years later, his spouse demanded that he pay her $2,000.00 a month in spousal support and one-half of the value of the house. He earned about $100,000.00, while she was on disability payments. She had contributed about $16,000.00 towards the house.
We fought the case and even though she was on title, the court ordered her to vacate the premises after ordering name to be removed from title upon her being $18,000.00, and dismissed her spousal support claim.
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Our client bought a business. The vendor misrepresented sales revenues of the business and we sued the vendors for damages. The vendors ultimately settled with our client and paid some damages.
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Our client was fired after working 26 years as a hairdresser. She settled the case for about $3,000.00 and also signed a release releasing her employer of all claims. Despite the agreement to settle the case, we sued the employer and after about three years of delay we obtained damages of $135,000.00 for our client.
Our client was traveling to Cuba, buying Cuban cigars and then sold them in his store. The Cuban government’s arm that produced and marketed the cigars along with their Canadian distributor sued our client (and seven other similar stores) for damages and an injunction to prevent him (them) from purchasing the cigars and reselling in his (their) stores.
We fought the case in the Federal Court Trial Division, brought a motion for Summary Judgement. While our case was being prepared for argument, the rest of the cases were put on hold. After three days of arguments, the court ruled in our client’s favour and also expunged the trade marks from the registry. They appealed the case to the Federal Court of Appeal where the case was argued for one and one-half day, after which the court dismissed their appeal, granted us costs. Thereafter all other cases were settled by them and they also paid costs to our client and to the other defendants.
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Our client entered into an agreement to purchase a home. Initially the purchase agreement was conditional on obtaining financing. Financing did not come through. Later on, our client’s mortgage broker informed the real estate agent that he had obtained approval of financing. The agent made a new offer to purchase without including a financing condition. When the bank obtained an appraisal of the property, the bank offered to advance mortgage for 75% of the appraised value, not enough for our client to close the transaction. The vendor sued our client and won. Our client lost all of his deposit. We thereafter sued the real estate agent and the court ordered the agent to pay damages and costs to our client. The agent appealed to the Court of Appeal, but he lost the appeal with costs payable to us.
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TD Bank damaged my client’s credit rating by wrongfully reporting that my client wrote cheques when he did not have money in his account. Although my client showed that the bank made an error in his account, they ignored his request to correct his credit rating. We sued the bank and obtained an order for damages with an order requiring the bank to correct his credit rating.
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WE HAVE HAD FIVE CASES ON SIMILAR THEMES AS THIS CASE:
Our client was sued for misrepresentation. He had invested his own monies in a high risk investment and then recommended his friends to invest as well. Later on, the investments turned out to be fraud. Our client’s friend sued our client on various grounds. Three of the five cases have been dismissed with costs payable to my clients. One case has been withdrawn by the plaintiff but without any costs. One case is still outstanding, and awaiting pre-trial and possibly trial.
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Our client was engaged to marry a person. After spending a lot of money and time for preparing for the big day, her fiancee asked her to sign a one-sided pre-nuptial agreement which was essentially very unfair to my client. The guests had already started arriving and in expectation of the marriage, the fiancé had placed a house in her name with a mortgage on the property.
Our client broke the engagement and walked away from the guy suffering a lot of loss. The guy brought an action seeking the return of all his gifts and the return of the house to him as he had fully paid for all the payments for the house. The client was represented by another lawyer and he recommended settling the case at a nominal amount to be paid. We took over the case and sought damages and after a bitter dispute, we obtained a very generous settlement amount plus costs for our client.
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Our client, a doctor, placed an offer to purchase a residential property which he wanted to convert into a medical clinic. He could not raise sufficient financing and aborted the transaction. Unfortunately, the agent failed to make the agreement conditional on obtaining financing. The vendor sued our client for over $300,000.0 0 for damages. We cross-claimed the action against the real estate company for indemnity.
The real estate company paid the damages to the vendor instead of my client paying any damages, and they also paid my client’s legal fees.
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Our client went into a business with another person. Both operated a restaurant under a corporation without any formalities (such as preparing Minute Books, etc.). The business was not successful. They placed it up for sale at $350,000.00 then kept reducing the price until they agreed to sell it at $56,000.00. They did not have a lawyer draw up any documents and one shareholder signed (with the other's verbal consent) the few documents to sell the business. The other shareholder has now sued our client seeking damages for selling the business without the other's signatures. The case is ongoing.
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Our client has been appointed as his late father's executor. His late father was a shareholder with his brother who managed the financial part of the business. The executor has discovered that his uncle has misappropriated hundreds of thousands of dollars from the business and is suing his uncle for damages. His uncle has turned around and sued the executor for a few hundred thousand dollars for rent alleging that the executor had rented the business premises when he placed his dead inventory at the warehouse owned by his late father and uncle. The family case has become ugly, and there are a number of important issues raised in the case. The case is ongoing.
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