Litigation

• commercial litigation;
• breach of contract cases;
• oppression remedy cases;
• derivative actions;
• shareholder and partnership disputes;
• injunctions;
• debtor-creditor litigation;
• estate litigation;
• torts;
• commercial landlord and tenant disputes;
• construction disputes (residential and commercial);
• defamation and libel;
• breach of trust claims;
• employment law matters; and
• mortgage enforcement (power of sale and foreclosure).

Represents clients in matters before the Federal Court of Canada, Ontario Court of Appeal,
Divisional Court, Superior Court of Justice, and various boards and tribunals.

Also represents clients in alternative dispute resolution forums, including mediation and arbitration.

Bikram is fluent in English, French, and Punjabi.

“I’m a passionate and fearless advocate, well-equipped to strategically and forcefully litigate, while keeping my eye on the big picture. My aim is to provide practical, efficient and sound advice for all disputes.”

• Represented residential landlord clients in a Divisional Court appeal matter brought by the tenant in which the tenant argued that the landlords failed to provide compensation to the tenant after the landlords sold the property. The three-judges panel of the Division Court unanimously dismissed the tenant’s appeal, finding that there is no provision in the Residential Tenants Act that states compensation is required to be paid after a Notice to Terminate is served. The landlords obtained a costs order of $10,000 in their favour and the eviction of the tenant proceeded.

• Represented property owners in a construction lien matter initiated by the general contractor in which liens in the aggregate amount of over $1,000,000 were registered on Bikram’s clients’ properties. The general contractor also initiated an ODACC (Ontario Dispute Adjudication for Construction Contracts) adjudication. Bikram took quick steps to retain relevant experts and promptly move to an evaluative mediation, which led to the removal of all liens and dismissal of all claims.

• Argued many summary judgment motions, including a summary judgment motion for a variety of claims, including breach of contract, wrongful dismissal, breach of indemnity, redemption of shares, and punitive and exemplary damages, in the aggregate amount of over $540,700.00 plus interest and costs. Bikram successfully opposed the summary judgment motion on behalf of his clients, which was dismissed in its entirety, and Bikram’s clients secured a costs order in their favour of $30,000.

• Retained after Minutes of Settlement were signed by the plaintiff and the defendant at a settlement meeting with their respective lawyers, Bikram successfully brought a motion to set aside the Minutes of Settlement in their entirety on the basis that the Minutes of Settlement were an unconscionable transaction, entered into by his client under psychological pressure from the defendant’s intimidation tactics, and that enforcing the Minutes of Settlement would not be in the interests of justice, despite the fact that the plaintiff had a lawyer present with her at the settlement meeting. Bikram also achieved a $6,600.00 costs order in favour of his client for the motion to set aside the Minutes of Settlement.

• Represented two Estate Trustees in a motion to seek production from a non-party mutual fund company. The Court held that the non-party should produce the relevant documents as they relate to a former Estate Trustee’s management and handling of the Estate and the deceased’s affairs.

Accommodation of the Sikh Turban and Articles of Faith in Employment – Raj Anand and Bikram
Singh Bal