Suspended Vancouver lawyer ordered to pay neighbour K for time spent dealing with pseudo-legal lawsuit | CBC News

Suspended Vancouver lawyer ordered to pay neighbour $30K for time spent dealing with pseudo-legal lawsuit | CBC News

A suspended Vancouver lawyer who lost a “frivolous” lawsuit against her neighbour over a glass deck divider has been ordered to pay the woman nearly $30,000 in costs, likely ending a case that legal experts had described as highly unusual. Naomi Arbabi had claimed trespass against her neighbour, Colleen McLelland. McLelland declined an interview, but her lawyer spoke…

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Chinese custom or suspicious sale? Judge questions debtor’s sale of house to son for  | CBC News

Chinese custom or suspicious sale? Judge questions debtor’s sale of house to son for $1 | CBC News

After learning Hai Huang and his wife had signed away ownership of their half-million-dollar home to their son for one dollar, the man to whom Huang owed $436,000 had questions. A jury awarded Jian He the money in 2018 after finding Huang had assaulted him, perforating He’s eardrum and causing post-traumatic stress disorder. He has been unable to collect…

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