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For all the above reasons, it is very easy to underestimate the cost of
interlocutory proceedings relating to CPLs. Counsel for both sides should
anticipate the potential costs and advise clients from the outset of what they
may be getting themselves into in asserting or opposing a CPL.
ENDNOTES
1. 1077708 BC Ltd v Agri-Grow Farm Services Ltd,
2019 BCSC 977.
2. See, e.g., ibid at para 20; Drein v Puleo, 2016 BCSC
593 at paras 8–10 Drein.
3. RSBC 1996, c 215 Act.
4. RSBC 1996, c 163.
5. RSBC 1996, c 164.
6. SBC 2011, c 25.
7. SBC 1997, c 45.
8. SBC 2009, c 13.
9. The options and criteria are set out in ss 256–57 of
the Act.
10. 2018 BCCA 57 at para 44 emphasis in original.
11. Ocean Pastures Corporation v Old Masset Economic
Development Corporation, 2016 BCCA 12 Ocean
Pastures; Business Corporations Act, SBC 2002, c
57, s 236.
12. Ocean Pastures, supra note 11.
13. Supra note 2.
14. 2020 BCCA 214 at para 18 emphasis in original
Oei.
15. 2015 BCCA 438 at para 51 Palmer.
16. Ibid.
17. 2012 BCSC 447 at para 104.
18. Oei, supra note 14 at para 8.
19. (1984), 59 BCLR 333 (SC), aff’d 6 BCLR (2d) 291
(CA) DK Investments.
20. Oei, supra note 14 at para 29.
21. Ibid at paras 35–36.
22. Ibid at para 63.
23. Ibid at para 79 emphasis in original.
24. Palmer, supra note 15 at para 51.
25. 2004 BCSC 1658 De Cotiis.
26. Section 256(1)(b).
27. Section 257(1)(b)(i).
28. Section 257(1)(b)(i).
29. De Cotiis, supra note 25 at paras 77–79.
30. 2014 BCCA 388 Youyi.
31. Ibid at para 25.
32. Ibid at para 34.
33. 2004 BCSC 999 at para 8 Aviawest.
34. Youyi, supra note 30 at para 34, citing Aviawest,
supra note 33 at para 12.
35. Youyi, supra note 30 at paras 35, 39 emphasis in
original.
36. Ibid at para 49 emphasis in original.
37. Ibid at para 56.
38. Ibid at para 57 emphasis in original.
39. SCBC Vancouver Registry No S115129.
40. Ibid at para 20, relying on Woodwest Developments
Ltd v Met-Tec Installations Ltd, 1982 6 WWR 624
(BCSC).
41. 2016 BCSC 1362.
42. Ibid at para 43.