What is an unjust enrichment claim?

British Columbia, Canada


The following excerpt is from Snow v Snow, 2019 BCSC 1756 (CanLII):

An unjust enrichment is said to arise where there has been an enrichment of the respondent, a corresponding deprivation at the expense of the claimant, and the absence of a juristic reasons for that state of affairs: Pettkus v. Becker, 1980 CanLII 22 (SCC), [1980] 2 S.C.R. 834.

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