This motion highlights the relative sanctity of a consent order.

No counsel should draft a pleading without reading the appropriate rules on pleadings each time before they draft the pleading.

Aetna Financial Services Ltd. v. Feigelman | 1985 CarswellMan 379 | Supreme Court of Canada

Both parties have declared victory, the appellant because he obtained a new hearing on sanction and the respondent because it was successful on eleven of the twelve points raised, including five allegations of professional misconduct.

Carter v. B.C. Federation of Foster Parents Assn. | 2005 CarswellBC 1854 | British Columbia Court of Appeal

R. v. British Columbia (Attorney General) | 1923 CarswellNat 3 | Judicial Committee of the Privy Council

I have reviewed the affidavit of service and I must say that I have grave doubts as to its accuracy.

I do not regard the length or thickness of the evidentiary and rhetorical record as necessarily revealing much, because a great volume of material may actually indicate that the lawyers spent too little time preparing the matter.

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This post summarizes a BC case in which a defamation suit was dismissed for unreasonable delay causing significant prejudice to the defendants.

The witness said that the odor was "peculiar perfumy odor.

I do not think that it lies well in the mouth of the unsuccessful party whose evidence was found to be lacking to complain that the party opposite did a more thorough job marshalling its resources.