Can funds be converted to conversion?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Copytrack Pte Ltd. v Wall, 2018 BCSC 1709 (CanLII):
Copytrack points in particular to the decision of Mr. Justice Walker in Li v. Li, 2017 BCSC 1312 [Li], where he found that funds may be subject to a claim of conversion, which he described at para. 213 as a “positive wrongful act of dealing with goods, including funds, in a manner and with an intention inconsistent with the owner’s rights”.
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