In Bao v. Welltrend United Consulting Inc., 2025 BCCA 3, unscrupulous immigration consultants forged a lawyer’s signature on 20 applications to Nova Scotia’s Economic Provincial Nominee Program (NSNP). A Beijing-based immigration firm, the defendant Welltrend, made an agreement with Bao, a Canadian lawyer (not the author), for the lawyer to represent the firm’s clients in…
For a contract to be enforceable, a signature is not always a requirement. However, there are exceptions, such as contracts respecting land – a typical contract for purchase and sale of a residential property, as an example. A recent decision of the Supreme Court of British Columbia – Ross v. Garvey, 2025 BCSC 705 –…
A Burnaby couple facing “renoviction” is breathing a sigh of relief after a lawyer took on their case pro bono and came to the conclusion there’s no grounds to evict them. Last month, the NOW reported how Rafi Charif and his wife Natalia, along with a handful of other families at Claremont Terrace were given…
