2018

Whether matrimonial home to be regarded as family home - Section 2 of The
Property (Rights of Spouses) Act – Can Section 14 of Act be used to confer share
of property to a spouse if property is not family home - Evidence

Application for order requiring 1st defendant to provide information previously requested – Whether such an order should be made – Whether such an order is necessary in order to dispose fairly of the claim or to save costs - Application for order requiring the claimant to give security for costs – Interests of justice – Other pertinent considerations – Averments as to claimant ordinarily residing out of this jurisdiction – Averments as to claimant not being known to the 1st defendant’s attorney as having assets within this jurisdiction – Weight of some of the averments made – Whether applic

Motor vehicle accident - Differing medical diagnoses by two experts – Criteria for accepting one report above the other – General damages to be assessed for pain and suffering – Significance of differing whole person percentage impairment by experts.

Claim for marital property – Adverse possession – Owners of property own same as tenants-in-common – Whether claimant had possessed property in circumstances excluding the defendant from possession – Presumption of possession in favour of both title holders – Application for an extension of time under Property (Rights of Spouses) Act – Factors to be considered by court upon application for an extension of time to apply to court for division of property.

Civil practice and procedure – Application for summary judgment – Debt owed by one party to another – Attempt by debtor to assign debt – Assignment ineffective – Declaration of trust - Trustee refusing to bring claim against his debtors – Beneficiary of the trust bringing claim against third party debtor – Whether there exist any basis for summary judgment – Civil Procedure Rules 2002, part 15, rule 15.2.

Contract for services – Contract providing for provision of consultancy services in letter of engagement – Payment terms incorporated into the letter of engagement – Employer refusing to pay fees under the contract – Whether basis for payment under the contract was triggered – Whether any basis outside of contract for payment on a quantum meruit basis.

Judicial review – Reviewing the hearing process of an inferior tribunal – Duty to act fairly – What is fairness – Nature of duty to particularize grounds of claim – Certiorari – Legitimate expectation – Natural justice.

Negligence - Personal injury - Motor vehicle collision -  Road Traffic Act.

Application to set aside order -  Section 206 of the Companies Act – Scheme of arrangement - Whether court has jurisdiction to permit meeting – Whether meeting with creditors a prerequisite to permission.