J. Etienne

Following a five-day family law trial where the respondent was entirely successful, the respondent sought full recovery costs of $139,675.71.

The court found that the respondent beat her offers to settle and that the applicant acted in bad faith by hiding income, failing to make disclosure, and advancing spurious claims to drain the respondent's resources.

The court awarded the respondent her full claimed costs of $139,675.71, enforceable through the Family Responsibility Office as child and spousal support.

The parties separated after a 20-year marriage.

The applicant husband claimed he had no assets, lived on loans from friends, and sought an unequal division of net family property in his favour.

The respondent wife claimed a resulting trust in the matrimonial home, equalization, and support, alleging the husband hid assets and income.

The court found the husband failed to make full and frank disclosure, hid foreign assets, and received substantial undisclosed income and gifts.

The court granted the wife a resulting trust in the matrimonial home, imputed an annual income of $349,544 to the husband, awarded the wife a lump sum spousal support payment of $434,784, and ordered the net proceeds of the matrimonial home be paid to her in satisfaction of her claims.

The accused, a Brazilian national and refugee claimant, sought bail pending an extradition hearing to the United States on charges of human smuggling.

The Crown argued that the reverse onus provisions under s. 515(6) of the Criminal Code applied because the accused's prior criminal record in Brazil rendered him ineligible for refugee status, meaning he was not 'ordinarily resident in Canada'.

The court agreed that the reverse onus applied, but noted that even if it did not, the Crown had shown cause for detention.

The court found the accused posed a significant flight risk, a substantial likelihood of reoffending, and that detention was necessary to maintain confidence in the administration of justice.

The proposed surety was also deemed unreliable.

Bail was denied.