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Jason Tan

Jason Tan

Jason Tan is a writer for Canadian Lawyer magazine and writes primarily on important developments in case law across Canada. Jason is a lawyer with experience in construction arbitration, contract drafting, and intellectual property cases.
 

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Trial fairness preserved despite extensive questions on fraud of retiree: Alberta Court of Appeal

Trial fairness preserved despite extensive questions on fraud of retiree: Alberta Court of Appeal

Questions were necessary to understand the accused’s arguments

Police dog bite during arrest needed objectively reasonable force analysis: Alberta Court of Appeal

Police dog bite during arrest needed objectively reasonable force analysis: Alberta Court of Appeal

Accused also suffered shattered orbital bone, broken nose

Negligence action against law firm allowed, land claim dismissed for delay: Alberta Court of Appeal

Negligence action against law firm allowed, land claim dismissed for delay: Alberta Court of Appeal

Dismissal of land action gave rise to the negligence action

Executor’s failure to preserve assets alone unsuitable for summary judgment: Sask Court of Appeal

Executor’s failure to preserve assets alone unsuitable for summary judgment: Sask Court of Appeal

Devastavit does not always apply in these cases

Bennett Jones, Kim Spencer McPhee appear in multimillion-dollar commercial case

Bennett Jones, Kim Spencer McPhee appear in multimillion-dollar commercial case

Loopstra Nixon, Miller Thomson, Osler Hoskin most commercial case appearances this week

Funds paid as security for builder’s lien did not prevent accrual of interest: BC Court of Appeal

Funds paid as security for builder’s lien did not prevent accrual of interest: BC Court of Appeal

Security was in substitution for land subject to a builder’s lien

Medical negligence appeal not virtually hopeless, securities for cost dismissed: BC Court of Appeal

Medical negligence appeal not virtually hopeless, securities for cost dismissed: BC Court of Appeal

Patient had health issues before being brought to hospital

In cases that share a dispositive issue, dismissal of one cannot result in granting the other: BCCA

In cases that share a dispositive issue, dismissal of one cannot result in granting the other: BCCA

Actions concerned trust and ejectment

Commercial list appearances include Bennett Jones, Fogler Rubinoff, Lerners, Miller Thomson, Osler

Commercial list appearances include Bennett Jones, Fogler Rubinoff, Lerners, Miller Thomson, Osler

Each appeared in three commercial cases this week

Doctrine of recent possession, mandatory minimum sentence raised before Supreme Court of Canada

Doctrine of recent possession, mandatory minimum sentence raised before Supreme Court of Canada

Duty to challenge vaccination policy before Federal Court of Appeal