Monday, May 13th, 2013
In Thomas v. Wales, the plaintiff sought an order vesting title of a property and business (a scrap yard) to him. He claimed both were promised to him by his parents. Relying on Soulos v. Korkontzilas, the plaintiff submitted the court should impose a constructive trust on the property as ...
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Thursday, April 25th, 2013
The deceased in Lukic v. Zaban was a successful businessman whose wife of 46 years had died five years before he met the applicant, Ms. Lukic. By the time he met Ms. Lukic, Mr. Zaban had been in a serious car accident which had left him disabled. The ...
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Wednesday, April 17th, 2013
I previously wrote about this sad case here and here. By way of a brief recap, Ved Dhingra suffered from schizophrenia for several years and had been in and out of hospital following various suicide attempts. On June 9, 2006, following another suicide attempt, Mr. Dhingra was released from hospital ...
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