What are the defences of fraudulent misrepresentation, mistake, and breach of fiduciary duty?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Dalon v. Legal Services Society, 1995 CanLII 210 (BC SC):
55 The defendant's legal salvo to the plaintiff's fundamental assertion rests on the defences of fraudulent misrepresentation, mistake, estoppel, and breach of fiduciary duty, any one of which, counsel contends, renders the principle laid down in Bell v. Lever Bros. inapplicable. It is to those defences to which I now turn. Fraudulent Misrepresentation
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