What are the elements required to establish unjust enrichment?

British Columbia, Canada


The following excerpt is from Godfrey v. Sony Corporation, 2016 BCSC 844 (CanLII):

The elements required to establish unjust enrichment are: (1) an enrichment to the defendant; (2) a corresponding deprivation of the plaintiff; and (3) an absence of juristic reason for the enrichment: Garland v. Consumers’ Gas Co., 2004 SCC 25 at para. 30.

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