What is the test for an equitable claim of unjust enrichment?

Ontario, Canada


The following excerpt is from Metzler Investment GMBH v. Gildan Activewear Inc., 2009 CanLII 74223 (ON SC):

In Pettkus v. Becker, 1980 CanLII 22 (SCC), [1980] 2 S.C.R. 834 at 848, Dickson J. set out the three requirements to be satisfied before the equitable claim of unjust enrichment can exist: …an enrichment, a corresponding deprivation and absence of any juristic reason for the enrichment.

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