Is there a cause of action for breach of fiduciary duty?
Ontario, Canada
The following excerpt is from Fleming v. Fleming, 2001 CanLII 28222 (ON SC):
Accordingly, the applicant in this case, is not assisted by the learned dissent of Wilson J. in Frame v. Smith, supra, as to the existence, on the facts pleaded here, of a cause of action for breach of fiduciary duty.
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