Category Archives: Civil Procedure: New Rules of Court
eQuestioning: Oral Questioning in Litigation in the Era of Social Distancing
By: Gideon Christian PDF Version: eQuestioning: Oral Questioning in Litigation in the Era of Social Distancing In adversarial litigation, oral questioning is an out-of-court pre-trial or pre-hearing proceeding where a party to litigation orally examines (by way of questioning) under … Continue reading
Swift Judgment in a Complex Commercial Case
By: Nigel Bankes PDF Version: Swift Judgment in a Complex Commercial Case Case commented on: Blaze Energy Ltd v Imperial Oil Resources, 2014 ABQB 326 The Commercial Court of the English High Court is well known for its capacity to … Continue reading
What does Fearn v Canada Customs add to OPCA jurisprudence?
By: Admin PDF Version: What does Fearn v Canada Customs add to OPCA jurisprudence? Case commented on: Fearn v Canada Customs, 2014 ABQB 114 (CanLII) The leading case on Organized Pseudolegal Commercial Argument (OPCA) litigation is the Alberta Court of … Continue reading
Pushing Back, Lock[e], Stock and Barrel on the Availability of Summary Judgment in Oil and Gas Lease Cases
By: Nigel Bankes PDF Version: Pushing Back, Lock[e], Stock and Barrel on the Availability of Summary Judgment in Oil and Gas Lease Cases Case commented on: P. Burns Resources Limited v Locke, Stock and Barrel Company Ltd., 2014 ABCA 40 This … Continue reading
Enforcing and Extending Vexatious Litigant Orders
PDF Version: Enforcing and Extending Vexatious Litigant Orders Case commented on: 1158997 Alberta Inc v Maple Trust Company, 2013 ABQB 483 This decision is interesting for two reasons. First, it illustrates a problem with the vexatious litigant provisions in Part … Continue reading
