Hunter Parsons

Practice Details

• Firm Information
  Position

  Associate

  Firm Name

  Borden Ladner Gervais LLP
• Representative Cases & Transactions
  Cases

  Representative Work: Conducted trials in the Provincial Court of British Columbia
  the Supreme Court of British Columbia on a variety of matters, including banking, fraud, defamation, commercial leasing, product liability, negligence
  contractual claims.
  Prosecuted a Bills of Exchange trial in Provincial Court on behalf of a financial institution.
  Defended a product liability claim at trial on behalf of a building-products manufacturer in Provincial Court.
  Obtained summary dismissal of a number of claims for financial institutions in Provincial Court.
  Set aside a wrongfully-entered consent to judgment in Supreme Court.
  Defended an application brought by a judgment debtor to set aside a judgment under Rule 22-1(3) of the Supreme Court Civil Rules (Staples Canada Inc. v. Skycorp Maps Ltd., 2017 BCSC 188).
  Obtained an order for the cancellation of a certificate of pending litigation on development l
  s in the face of an impending sale to a third party (Sunstar Ventures Ltd. v. Conexus Credit Unit 2006, 2016 BCSC 1121).
  Junior counsel on a successful summary trial application in Supreme Court that upheld the enforceability of an account verification clause in a business banking agreement on behalf of a financial institution (D2 Contracting v. The Bank of Nova Scotia, 2015 BCSC 1634).
  As junior counsel, successfully defended an application before the British Columbia Securities Commission
  the Ontario Securities Commission to cease trade a private placement of a junior mining exploration company following the announcement of an unsolicited take-over bid. The case
  resulting decision is the first transaction to be considered by a Canadian securities regulator under the new takeover bid regime in National Instrument 62-104 Take-Over Bids
  Issuer Bids (Re Hecla Mining, 2016 BCSECCOM 359).
  Junior counsel on the prosecution
  defence of various oppression remedy claims brought under corporate legislation.
  Regularly appears in Supreme Court Chambers
  Court of Appeal Chambers on a range of procedural matters.