What is the current state of the law on fiduciary duty?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Fichtner v. Johnston Meier Insurance Services Ltd., 2001 BCSC 1064 (CanLII):
In Bijeau, Bastarache J.A. reviewed the development of the legal concept of fiduciary duty, with particular reliance on Hodgkinson v. Simms et al., 1994 CanLII 70 (SCC), [1994] 3 S.C.R. 377. The following passage appears at pp. 248-9:
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