Richter & Associates Inc v. The Queen, 2005 TCC 92 -- summary under Illegality

By services, 28 November, 2015

In rejecting a submission that the trustee for a bankrupt company was not authorized by the Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act to engage in a "litigation support business" of providing assistance to most of the creditors in connection with their action sounding in negligence against company's former auditors, C&L for $800 million in damages, Archambault J stated (at paras. 33-4):

[T]he Trustee, acting as agent for the Estate, was legally entitled to carry on the undertaking in question. … In any event, I would add that the Act is not to be applied to transactions that ought to have taken place, nor is it to be applied only to transactions that could be legally carried out. In my view, the Act ought to be applied to what has actually taken place.

See summary under s. 141.01(2).

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