British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Lee v Zhou, 2022 BCSC 172 (CanLII):
The terms wilful and deliberate have an established meaning in the context of seeking to set aside an order. A summary of the law on the point is found in Grosz v. Royal Trust Corporation of Canada, 2021 BCSC 1313:
The phrase “guilty of wilful delay or default” has been interpreted to mean more than just purposeful, deliberate or intentional behaviour, and carries with it a sense of blameworthiness: Zhang v. Ton, 2014 BCSC 122 at para. 29. If documents are served but a party chooses not to read them, that behaviour is consistent with wilful blindness and such conduct should not be condoned: para. 34.
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